Their Own Mistakes Quotes

#1. If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Nature will forgive those who accept their own mistakes and not blame God for them. When God is not the doer of anything at all, one takes on grave liability by saying that God did it.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Monks, there are two kinds of immature people: those who do not see their own mistakes as mistakes, and those who do not forgive mistakes committed by someone else. The

Anonymous

#4. The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

Thomas Sowell

#5. People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. As a parent, all you want is for your kids to be safe but you don't want to be over-protective and so you know that at some stage, they're going to make their own mistakes and get hurt emotionally when all you want to do is protect them from that.

Steve Carell

#7. Instead, they are constantly trying to improve. They surround themselves with the most able people they can find, they look squarely at their own mistakes and deficiencies, and they ask frankly what skills they and the company will need in the future.

Carol S. Dweck

#8. Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The wise learn from the mistakes of others, it's the fool that wants to make their own mistakes.

Tony Gaskins

#10. It's hard to tell people who they should hang out with and who they shouldn't, especially if they aren't ready to hear that. You have to let your friends make their own mistakes sometimes. You can't protect them from everything, or else they'll never learn

Lauren Conrad

#11. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.

John Patrick Hickey

#12. I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Bernard Baruch

#13. All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#14. I must learn to give those I love the right to make their own mistakes and recognize them as theirs alone.

Al-Anon

#15. Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

Brooke Burke

#16. Everybody learns from their own mistakes.
The wise learn from mistakes others make.

Manoj Vaz

#17. We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them ... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Russell L. Ackoff

#18. The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

Simon Bolivar

#19. The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made it "quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Michael Lewis

#20. A wise person learns from the mistakes of others, a normal person learns from their own, and a fool learns nothing, ever.

Robert J. Crane

#21. I am a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in Christ. Everybody is entitled to their own religion and their own opinion. I'm not saying I'm perfect and that I don't make mistakes. But I do believe in a higher power.

Davone Bess

#22. People believe in God because they don't believe in themselves. They need something else to depend on or to blame instead of taking responsibility for their own shit - crap, excrement, waste, mistakes, faults.

Katja Millay

#23. To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Steve Almond

#24. Every person has to make their own decisions in life. It's virtually impossible to learn from somebody else's mistakes; there are too many variables.

Victoria Connelly

#25. It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We

Matthew Syed

#26. Healthy people can own their mistakes and, over time, move on.

Kennedy Ryan

#27. These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

Dav Pilkey

#28. There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

Vanessa Kerry

#29. But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own; they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.

Sherry Thomas

#30. people seemed to be especially prone to making mistakes when they judged the accuracy of their own perceptions if those perceptions were of themselves and not others.

Anonymous

#31. I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.

Luke Perry

#32. Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Jay Woodman

#33. Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

Kajol

#34. When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate to the story or can find a piece of their own story hidden within - regardless of the mistakes. The ones who won't, never will - no matter what.

Beverly S. Harless

#35. Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#36. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty.

Alexander McCall Smith

#37. You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes.

Girdhar Joshi

#38. That's the thing about parents, isn't it? They don't really want you to live your own life; they want you to correct their mistakes-Mike

Sarwat Chadda

#39. One of the primary mistakes that leaders today make, when called to lead, is spending most of their time and energy trying to improve things at the organizational level before ensuring that they have adequately addressed their own credibility at individual, one-on-one, or team leadership levels.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#40. There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokerage firms; there will always be people who set out to deceive the regulators and even deceive their own senior management.

Mary Schapiro

#41. Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.

Pat Conroy

#42. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

#43. I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.

JD Era

#44. Although kids are born with great courage to take control of their own lives and make decisions, they have little experience on which to base their decisions, so they often make poor choices. But they can learn from those mistakes, provided parents don't get too involved.

Foster W. Cline

#45. It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

David Ogilvy

#46. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Adrian Grenier

#47. Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

Eddie Redmayne

#48. The scariest people in the world are not always the ones who are bent on evil, James. Sometimes, the scariest person is the one who mistakes their own lies for truth.

G. Norman Lippert

#49. You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair ... will help all move forward to better, brighter days.

Timothy Pina

#50. They certainly know their stuff, and any remaining mistakes or intentional variations from the factual are my own doing. In fact, why don't we just say any variations from the factual are intentional and call it good.

Clare Vanderpool

#51. Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

Harry Browne

#52. Mistakes are their own instructors

Horace

#53. Sometimes ... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#54. I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

Jerry Saltz

#55. Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

George Eliot

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.

Natalie Goldberg

#59. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Robert A. Heinlein

#60. 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