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Quotes About Mistakes

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!
~ Walter Scott
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
~ Katherine Jenkins
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one's life
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
How many mistakes can one life survive?
~ Kim Harrison
My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.
~ Lisa Snowdon
Life is full of horrible mistakes.
~ Louis C. K.
There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
~ Louis Sachar
Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.
~ Marcia Lynn McClure
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
~ Frederick William Robertson
And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.
~ John Fante
Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalise it. Recognise it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us. Not even Halt,' he added, seriously.
~ John Flanagan
But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.
~ John Flanagan
I can forgive him for what he's done wrong because that's the way of life.
~ John Glatt
That's the funny thing about cars and teenage boys. They never mean to hurt you when they crash, they just do.
~ John Goode
There is little to be gained from looking backward with disapproval at the consistency of human folly except to notice how each generation thinks itself immune to its predecessor's mistakes.
~ John H Makin
But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.
~ John Hart
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernhard Shaw
~ John J. Gobbell
Acknowledge your mistakes, correct them, and go on, but take the risk of enjoying what you've got, and be brave enough to change what doesn't work.
~ John J. Nance
Creamos y después, cuando la creación sale mal, queremos culpar a otros, cuando normalmente somos nosotros los responsables»
~ John Katzenbach
Young men make mistakes. This is inevitable, in any profession.
~ John Katzenbach
Creamos y después, cuando la creación sale mal, queremos culpar a otros, cuando normalmente somos nosotros los responsables», pensó.
~ John Katzenbach
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.
~ John M. Frame
Schools in the 21st century are paying a heavy price for the errors of schools and teachers a generation ago. We are being punished for their sins.
~ John Marsden