Quotes About Mistakes

The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.

I knew it," cried Helen. "I told you so. It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.

They do not know that by thinking in new directions (which has been called the definition of genius) they can bring new directions into their lives. Most of them are marking time, as if they have a non-cancelable contract with life. How can we rise above our more egregious mistakes if we just mark time! Let's do it better than it's been done before. Let's find our partner in the freest, richest land on earth and do something wonderful with this holiday we've been mysteriously granted.

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

Actually, we have no problems, we have opportunities for which we should give thanks. An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them…

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo

My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired'.

Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength.

The mind-set that mistakes are poisonous often freezes us into inaction

mistakes are positive elements of quintessential thinking and failure is an important part of the foundation upon which to build success.

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes.

Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done.