Quotes About Mistakes

We all do make foolish mistakes.

I often put my foot in it a little bit sometimes.

America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves.

I think it's a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.

The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

We made mistakes in 2018, as a candidate and as a campaign. I had not campaigned in 25 years, and people forgot me, they forgot my contributions as a congressman, they forgot my contributions as a cabinet secretary.

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

First year in the league, I tried to block everything. And I'd foul out. I averaged the most fouls per minute.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.

Even the most disciplined commander-in-chief misspeaks from time to time.

Yes, there are moments when it's frustrating where you can't put the ball where you want it and you make mistakes.

Learning a game and doing something wrong is sometimes funnier than being good at it.

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

La vida es un continuo optar. Algunas veces acertamos, otras veces nos equivocamos. Yo creo que sea cual sea la decisión, errada o acertada, debe salir del corazón, del propio convencimiento y no como consecuencia del miedo

Ye see, Little Tree, ain't no way of learning, except by letting ye do. Iff'n I had stopped ye from buying the calf, ye'd have always thought ye'd ought to had it. Iff'n I'd told ye to buy it, ye'd blame me fer the calf dying. Ye'll have to learn as ye go.

He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.

We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.

Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn't change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It's part of letting their actions have weight. It's part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just being a flurry of events. It's part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.