Top 100 Quotes About The Mistakes
#1. I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
Zooey Deschanel
#2. Regret for not learning; not for the mistakes you did.
Garbyal
#3. Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson
#4. I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.
Jandy Nelson
#5. [I]t wasn't so much the mistakes that people made but how flexible they were in their aftermath that made all the difference in how their lives turned out.
Naomi Jackson
#6. We only make the mistakes that we have to make to learn what we're here to learn right now.
Joseph Jaworski
#7. And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore.
Penny Reid
#8. When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself - well, you can forgive yourself for those.
Dean Koontz
#9. We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are ... We are all of them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. The mistakes we make in our youth," she said solemnly, "we pay for with the rest of our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes.
John Patrick Hickey
#13. The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
Chuck Klosterman
#14. The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way
Richard Templar
#15. If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.
Christine Upton
#16. I don't know how to save the world. I don't have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth's inhabitants, none of us will survive - nor will we deserve to.
Leonard Peltier
#17. I feel like making the mistakes I always wanted to make, but never had the courage to ... I can make new friends and teach them how to be crazy too in order to be wise. I'll tell them not to follow the manuals of good behaviour but to discover their own lives, desires, adventures and to live
Paulo Coelho
#18. And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn't poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.
Jeanette Winterson
#19. Don't dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you
S.E. Sever
#21. I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
Ringo Starr
#22. If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.
E.R. Mason
#23. You see the mistakes of one system - the surveillance - and the mistakes of the other - the inequality - but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.
Anna Funder
#24. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.
Aaron B. Powell
#25. This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#26. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
Saul Bellow
#27. Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing
Junior Brown
#28. The mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
Helen Rowland
#29. A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
Deborah Turbeville
#30. You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
Ben Horowitz
#31. It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them
Patrick Ness
#32. I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby ... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.
Donald Glover
#33. The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#34. We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.
Jim Calhoun
#35. Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.
Iyanla Vanzant
#36. Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins.
C. JoyBell C.
#37. Sometimes it's the mistakes that turn out to be the
best parts of life,
Carrie Ryan
#38. I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.
Craig Ferguson
#39. We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
Mehmet Oz
#40. I've done some things I wish I could erase ... I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#41. The advantage in today's society is that there is so much information about everything. It means that you don't have to repeat all the mistakes yourself but can learn by seeing how other people have done.
Peter Jumrukovski
#42. I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.
Holly Lynn Payne
#43. All the mistakes you will ever make in your life have already been made by those that have walked before you.
Robin S. Sharma
#44. One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.
Bret McKenzie
#45. It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small
Carlos Slim
#46. Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato The Elder
#47. As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
Apolo Ohno
#48. All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.
Colleen Hoover
#49. You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.
Zicheng Hong
#50. The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.
Tony Gaskins
#51. One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.
Nick Mason
#52. We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
Nicky Gumbel
#53. I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.
Dana Spiotta
#54. No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.
George R R Martin
#55. A few mistakes don't worry me; what worries me is when you make the mistakes and then forget your role on the team and start to worry about your ego.
Digger Phelps
#56. Here they were, the people we were becoming, about to knock on our front door, hoping they could undo the mistakes we were making at that very moment.
Christopher Barzak
#57. I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
Lance Henriksen
#58. I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
Steven R. McQueen
#59. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.
Stephen L. Petranek
#60. I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.
Daniel Inouye
#61. A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
#62. I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
Mary Alice Monroe
#64. We must expect to fail ... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted Engstrom
#65. In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#66. The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust
#67. I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.
Julie Delpy
#68. The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.
Pearl S. Buck
#69. I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.
Mark Wahlberg
#70. The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.
Kim Harrison
#71. If Nick Clegg hadn't been sitting around the cabinet table, we wouldn't have had the bedroom tax; we wouldn't have had the rise in tuition fees. We wouldn't have had the mistakes we've seen in economic policy.
Douglas Alexander
#72. The successful leader must be willing
to assume responsibility for the mistakes
and the shortcomings of his followers.
Napoleon Hill
#73. When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.
Ken Follett
#74. I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'
John Fund
#75. Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#76. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
#77. Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.
Brandi Chastain
#78. The mistakes we make when we are young are just as important to us as food or air. Without learning how to do things the wrong way, we can never learn how to do them the right way.
J.A. Brimingham
#79. True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
Seth Brown
#80. When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
Natalie Gulbis
#81. I fretted myself about the mistakes of government, like other people; but finding myself every day grow more angry, and the government growing no better, I left it to mend itself.
Oliver Goldsmith
#82. Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
John Wooden
#83. I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.
Mariska Hargitay
#84. I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes of one's own than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.
W. Somerset Maugham
#85. One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
Alberto Fujimori
#86. People say there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
John C. Maxwell
#87. Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction.
Alok Jagawat
#88. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.
Pete Rose
#89. If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.
Tim Allen
#90. It's not the successes in life that teach us a lesson, it's the mistakes we made to get there that truly teach us.
Steven Aitchison
#91. Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
George Osborne
#92. Why this book? In today's globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of the past, unnecessarily.
Thomas Jerome Baker
#93. He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
Barbara Kingsolver
#94. Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.
Cindy Sherman
#95. The Breviary was hard to learn, and every step was labor and confusion, not to mention the mistakes and perplexities I got myself into. However,
Thomas Merton
#96. I feel it's so easy to condemn this country [the United States]; but they don't understand that this is where the mistakes are being made - and made first, so that we're going to get the answers first.
Christopher Isherwood
#97. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero ... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
Frank Herbert
#98. Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
Gordon Lightfoot
#99. I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.
Lana Del Rey
#100. I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.
Robert Barry
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