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Quotes About Mistakes

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
~ Tom Peters
I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
~ Hilary Duff
Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
~ John Wayne
I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
~ Mark Wahlberg
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
~ Maya Angelou
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
~ Bob Parsons
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
~ Andrew Solomon
If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
~ Ray Davies
You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?
~ Shawn Colvin
Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.
~ William J. Clinton
Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
~ William J. Clinton
I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.
~ William J. Clinton
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.
~ William P. Young
I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life.
~ Willie Aames
All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.
~ Alma Kruger
You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.
~ Bret Michaels
Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
~ Cassandra Clare
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
A lot of people said Star Trek II was such a terrific movie and had a lot of unkind things to say about Star Trek I, but I don't think they realize that Star Trek II wouldn't have been so good if someone hadn't gone boldly where no one had gone before and showed us, in effect, what not to do when it was really important.
~ Edward Gross
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL
~ Edward Luce
the philosopher George Santayana famously warned, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Though the institutions of society have difficulty learning from history, individuals can do so.
~ Edward O. Thorp
But history shows that logic launched from introspection alone lacks thrust, can travel only so far, and usually heads in the wrong direction.
~ Edward O. Wilson