Quotes about mistake

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“A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader.”

“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.”

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

“Men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.”

“You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you.”

“She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”

“The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.”

“It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.”

“Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.”

“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.”

“We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.”

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”

“But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.”

“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that; s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”

“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”

“it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien
said mildly, “that we can even have a future”

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”

“one who makes no mistakes makes nothing”

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.

OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

“Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

“The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen”

“Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.”

“Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work is the implementation of this original fault, from which comes a risky plenitude and new light.”

“I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.”

“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.”

“We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.”

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”

“Adrian frowned.
'Is that a noose?'
'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this.
'My mistake.”

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self”

“It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.”

“If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.”

“Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

“When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.”

“I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.”

“The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of a country.”

“We all find out the people who are supposed to take care of us are human eventually. That they make mistakes.”

“It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.”

“Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.”

“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.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”

“Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron”

“I'm not sure what I am anymore… Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures… That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”

“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”

“Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!”

“Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”

“We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”

“Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.”

“I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.”

“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”

“When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.”

“Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever”

“The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

“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.”

“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”

“I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.”

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.”

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”

“I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly”

“History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?'

'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.”

“One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.”

“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

“it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

“I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.”

“Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.”

“Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.”

“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.”

“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”

“A womans mistakes are different from a girls”

“I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”

“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

“I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.”

“The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadn't expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake.”

“We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)”

“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”