Quotes About Mistakes

I've made a lot of mistakes in my career but the biggest mistake I've made is to turn down work.

All of us make mistakes and one learns from the bitter lessons of the past.

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

Sometimes a blessing will come out of mistakes.

I've been around the block a few times. There is still a lot to learn but I've learned a lot in my life through error.

I hope to teach people that it's fine to make mistakes because they will learn from them, to be who they are, and to learn to love their bodies.

Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.

It's never nice to make mistakes, but it's just how you bounce back.

We are bound to make mistakes.

When there is seam movement, you don't need to try too much. Just bowl good, hard lengths and wait for the batsman to make mistakes.

If you ask your players to be brave on the ball, sometimes they are going to make mistakes or get caught out.

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

The beauty of the media business is all about what is next. You put your mistakes behind you. Learn from them and move on to the next project. Having some degree of success is integral to a risk-taking balance.

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

I think we all learn probably more from our mistakes than we do our successes.

There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.