Quotes About Mistakes

If my son enters politics, I will be able to guide him. He too would have learnt a lot from watching me, so he is less likely to make mistakes.

We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.

Writing about our mistakes turns the stupid stuff we've done and cringed over for years into a sort of do's-and-don'ts guide for others. Actually, more of a don'ts-and-don't guide.

You need someone to guide you otherwise you end up taking wrong decisions and that doesn't really help.

I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

You've got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Bad habits can easily be formed when you're younger.

My worst haircuts have been the ones where I've done my own.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

you tend to beat yourself up when your decisions turn out poorly.

We cannot erase the past. We can only confess it and agree that it was wrong. We can ask for forgiveness and try to act differently in the future

The emotional need for love must be met if we are to have emotional health. Married adults long to feel affection and love from their spouses. We feel secure when we are assured that our mate accepts us, wants us, and is committed to our well-being. During the "in-love" stage, we felt all of those emotions. It was heavenly while it lasted. Our mistake was in thinking it would last forever.

There were so many variables, so many ways to go wrong.

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

It is not human nature to dominate, but to create. Yes, humankind falters every now and then, but you know how to learn from your past mistakes. You've done it before, and you can do it again. I believe that ultimately, you will create a civilization that preserves and protects even as it grows. Do you understand? The spirits will always have a place in this world, as long as you -- and humans like you -- create a place for us. - Lady Tienhai, Guardian Spirit/Queen

The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.