Quotes about mistake
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“‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips book It Had to Be You

Source: It Had to Be You

“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“There is nothing wrong withmistakes, but one should always makeones. mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.”

Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus

“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

Cars, Water, Speed

“It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Nature, Parting

“Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.”

Elizabeth Goudge book The Little White Horse

Source: The Little White Horse

World, Spring, Flowers, Thinking

“Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui—these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.”

David Foster Wallace book The Pale King

Source: The Pale King (2011)

“Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Beauty, Bird, Sense, Singing

“… But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.”

Michael Chabon A Model World and Other Stories

Source: A Model World and Other Stories

Love

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Learning, Business

“One must make one's own mistakes”

Agatha Christie book Cat Among the Pigeons

Source: Cat Among the Pigeons

“The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Girl, Time

“I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

People

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Life

“Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

God

“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Variant: I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Source: Hannibal

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Quotes about mistake
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