Quotes about mistakes
Gregory David Roberts -
Mistakes are like bad loves the more you learn from them the more you wish they'd never happened.
Louise Antoine -
It was worse than a crime it was a blunder.
Jean Kerr - The Snake Has All the Lines
I make mistakes I'll be the second to admit it.
Bertolt Brecht - Stories of Mr. Keuner
What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time I’m preparing my next mistake.
Bhikkhu Bodhi -
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
Sherry Thomas - Not Quite a Husband
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.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation!
Eraldo Banovac -
Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes the price that you haveto pay is often too high.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Mistakes are part of your life it is impossible to live a mistake-free life! You have made mistakes and you shall make mistakes! Just let them be fewer and smaller!
David Schnarch - Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be they are a necessary ingredient.
K. Martin Beckner - Chips of Red Paint
I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit
Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly without first having to lose one’s life.
Robin Hobb - The Mad Ship
No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Steve Maraboli -
Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes own them... learn from them. Don’t throw away the lesson by blaming others.
Ashok Kallarakkal -
Failure is a great teacher but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Anthony Robbins -
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect just be an excellent example of being human.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.
Kevin Plank -
I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Nancy Gibbs -
All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
Dale Carnegie -
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Conrad Hilton -
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Al Franken -
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Drew Barrymore -
I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.
William J. Clinton -
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Camillo di Cavour -
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Vincent Bugliosi -
All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
Kimberly Caldwell -
I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.
E. T. Bell -
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
James Caan -
I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.
Steve Maraboli - and Being Free
Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
Plutarch -
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Shiv Khera - You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.
Audrey Phillips -
Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.
Judy Frankel -
When a million little things go right, that’s called success. Failure functions as the great leveler. When things don’t go as planned, it’s humbling. It’s important to make mistakes along the way, or we would be impossible to live with.
Gina Varamo -
We all make mistakes. It is important to learn from them and just as important to know when to move on.
Kiera Van Gelder - The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior T
DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badla
Auliq Ice -
It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.
Chris Bradford - The Ring of Earth
Even monkeys fall from trees.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
We learn from education, experience and people.
Arianna Huffington -
We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Auliq Ice -
When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.
Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness
If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.
Rosemarie J. Alvarez -
Only you are your own successor or lead to your own failure. It is how you learn from your experiences and mistakes. If you keep making the same mistakes, it is you and you alone can take the blame. Today's mistakes can be Tomorrow's lessons.
Frank Sonnenberg - BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
Mistakes don’t make you a failure, but beating yourself up makes you feel like one.
Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck -
Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could.
L.R. Knost -
Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.
Stella Payton - A Word in Season: A Daily Devotional
Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.
Richard Paul Evans - The Four Doors
You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
Rick Julian -
Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons
David W. Jones - Enough: And Other Magic Words to Transform Your Life
Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway
Benjamin Bayani - The Nation
There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.
Auliq Ice -
A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.
Dan Pearce - Single Dad Laughing
When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.
Neil Gaiman - Make Good Art
Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say “I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!
Wayne Gerard Trotman -
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
Penelope Douglas - Until You
I call it the “Fuck up, own up, and get up” policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn’t make them worse.
Mahyar Mottahed -
Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.
John Ashcroft -
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
It’s ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!
Shannon L. Alder -
Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness.
Kate Mullane Robertson -
a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it...
Mary Casanova - Grace
When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.
Munindra Misra - Eddies of Life
All make mistakes but the important thing then should be, Learn from them and do not repeat them subsequently.[230] - 4 (Thoughts)
Debasish Mridha -
Find the truth and forget the mistake.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.
Munia Khan -
Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Life is a sacred experiment.
Bryant McGill -
Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Prince
Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”“Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”“I —”“You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”“Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant tohurt you.”Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —”“You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing thepanic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —”“Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly.
Chris Matakas - My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.
Avina Celeste -
Accept your mistakes. Overcome your mistakes. Grow from your mistakes. Growth only comes after you have realized your mistakes. If you accept your mistake and have gained knowledge from it, it was all worth it.
Charles Pellegrino - Ghosts of the Titanic
So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action!
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.
Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.
Jake Byrne - First and Goal: What Football Taught Me About Never Giving Up
The NFL determines your worth as a player, but only God knows your true worth. Players work long and hard through pain and suffering, injuries, and pushing themselves further than they imagined going—then poof ! A dream is gone. That kind of treatment can really mess with one’s self worth. Getting cut can be deemed a failure, the loss of a lifetime goal.Thankfully, as Christians our worth is not determined by mistakes we’ve made, either accidentally or by stupid stuff we’ve purposely done. Neit
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.
Katie Kiesler - 22 and Single: A Coming of Age Story...in Progress
Sometimes, most times, when I think back to the people that I loved, the person that I was... I feel like I'm reading the pages of a book written about someone else's life.I can't believe that was me. I can't believe that was you. I can't believe there was an us.It's not that I regret it. It just doesn't feel like it happened to me and yet, I can't forget it. I feel like it's still refracting and reflecting back on me, haunting me.Jesus intercepted my mind, my thoughts, my mistakes, my shame. He
Ron Baratono - The Writings of Ron Baratono
Dear God, I don’t ask for fame and fortune but for an opportunity to embrace many. I don’t ask you to make my life perfect but full of love. With every mistake I make, or with any success I have, I ask to feel your grace along the way, for the rest of my life. In Jesus’s name, amen.
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Yvonne Pierre - The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.
Robert Greene - Mastery
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
Cindy Crawford -
I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Mya Waechtler -
Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.
Anthony Castillo -
i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back.
Lisa Gardner - The Neighbor
There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway
They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.
Howard Pyle - The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?
Lorna Jackie Wilson -
Do not allow past mistakes to shape your future.
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez - Dirty Havana Trilogy
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.
Natalie Goldberg - and My Unlikely Path to Truth
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.