Quotes about mistake

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“Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.”

“The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Good people don’t make fewer mistakes, they’re just better at apologizing.”

“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”

“We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.”

“No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.”

“If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

“Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".”

“The mistake is in thinking there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”

“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”

“Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.”

“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?… aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

“One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.”

“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you”

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

“We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh… In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.”

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.”

“Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.”

“For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.”

“Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, “Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters.”
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.”

“Did you sleep well?"
"No, I made a couple of mistakes.”

“There are no mistakes”

“War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.”

“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”

“Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.'
'God,' I said. 'I.”

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

“When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.”

“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”

“I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.”

“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”

“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”

“Mistake is a mistake only if you make it twice…”

“There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher”

“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.”

“It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.”

“… for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.”

“It began as a mistake.”

“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

“When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.”

“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”

“Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.”

“Everyone's life is a mess. We all make mistakes… and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and
try again in a different way.”

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

“Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.”

“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”

“A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.”

“We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."

"A habit.”

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

“We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.”

“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.”

“And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.”

“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”

“It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.

-Hephaestus”

“If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.”

“Anyone can make a mistake…. It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.”

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”

“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.”

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”

“My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.”

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.”

“How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”

“Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember.”

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

“Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

“Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.”

“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”

“Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.”

“The only mistake is not to risk making one.”

“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”

“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.”

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.”

“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”

“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”

“… for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.”

“I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.”

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

“It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others.”

“Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

“The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”

“We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.”

“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”