Quotes About Mistakes

You never risked everything; you risked as little as possible. You sold the idea of risking everything to the sort of idiot who thought that was how you got rich, but you kept your own risks to an absolute minimum. That way if you did make a mistake--and everybody made mistakes, or they weren't really trying--it didn't finish you. Let others ruin themselves--there were always rich pickings in the wreckage--but don't ever risk too much yourself.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Sometimes we do all the wrong things for all the right reasons. We can be our own worst enemies. It takes a while to get over that.

Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.

We'd make fewer mistakes if we didn't have to wait for time and distance to give us clarity.

In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced of our own infallibility.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

A young dog under pressure will make mistakes and pressure on a dog is usually caused by an impatient handler.

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.

Folly is a child of power.

if autocrats always acted wisely they would not furnish history with moral lessons.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!" lamented Samuel Coleridge. "But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.

We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.

O)ur lives are the sum of our mistakes as well as our triumphs...

I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

One of the things Maxwell learned from his reading was the fallibility of men's efforts to understand the world. All of the great scientists had made mistakes. He was acutely aware of his own tendency to make errors in calculation.

I think what people have to just naturally give me the respect for is the fact that me being a woman and no matter what I've done, fault to mistakes or right to wrong, that I'm able to step out and be like, 'This is who I am and this is who I love to be with. This is what it is, this is my life. I'm on a reality show so you get what you get.'

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

I think after going through some scandals and realizing that if I'm growing as a person, and I'm acknowledging my mistakes, and I'm constantly bettering myself to be the best me that I can possibly be, what more can I really be?

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

A man will talk all day about the woman he wants, but should he come across that woman, he'll do something stupid like cheat on her with the kind of woman he was trying to get away from in the first place. It's not a lot of second chances granted in the realm of that.