Quotes About Mistakes

You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

Success is no mystery, but simply the result of consistently applying some basic principles. The reverse is just as true: Failure is simply a result of making a few mistakes repeatedly. All of this might sound too simplistic, but the fact is that most truths are very simple. I'm not saying they are easy, but they certainly are simple.

Jeder wiederholt seine Fehler ein Leben lang. Völlig klar, dass sich nichts wirklich weiterentwickelt, denn in jedem spiegelt sich die Welt, die ihre Geschichte wiederholt bis zur Verblödung.

Only smart people can make silly mistakes.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Saying what people failed to do has no role in understanding 'human error.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

No tenés amigos de infancia? —No me casé con los amigos de la infancia. Si ahora tengo poco discernimiento para elegirlos, ¿cómo habrán sido las equivocaciones de mis primeros años? Las amistades de infancia son erróneas, y no se puede ser fiel al erro indefinidamente.

We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Entrepreneurs who dip into soccer also keep making the same mistakes. They buy clubs promising to run them "like a business" and disappear a few seasons later amid the same public derision as the previous owners.

Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.

Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks. Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood back in Chicago I worshiped him. "You don't want to hear my answer to that.

We will stumble and get lost, but we need not make a mistake of not retracing our steps.

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.

leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.

si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.