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Quotes About Mistakes

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience.
~ Bob Packwood
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
~ Jack Kornfield
Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~ William Magee
we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us
~ Paulo Coelho
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
~ Carly Fiorina
Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.
~ Amelie Mauresmo
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.
~ Cathy Guisewite
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
~ David Seabury
Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.
~ Albert Einstein
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
~ Candace Bushnell
Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.
~ Karrine Steffans
I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
~ Maurice Wilkes
If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.
~ Mike Cloud
It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
~ Mila Kunis
Making mistakes is a way of taking action.
~ Paulo Coelho
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
I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.
~ Spencer Johnson
As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.
~ Tony Dungy
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
~ Aaron Sorkin
Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
~ Sarah Dunn