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Quotes About Mistakes

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.
~ Susan Mallery
I have life experience. Learn from my mistakes. Don't have regrets. They're a painful thing, and they never go away.
~ Susan Mallery
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
~ Susanna Clarke
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
~ Josh Billings
But we all hurt the people we love sometimes. We all let each other down sooner or later. Which is why contrition and forgiveness played a part in any relationship. Trying not to hurt each other, trying not to let each other down in the big things, that was as much as anyone could aim for.
~ Josh Lanyon
People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.
~ Josh Lanyon
I gave a helpless laugh. "Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize that's not logical. I realize that if I'd made the mistakes Verlane has made, I'd want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I just…" "What?" I met his eyes. "I just need to come first for someone, Guy.
~ Josh Lanyon
the pattern of error begetting error becomes true and deadly.
~ Josh Waitzkin
Brilliant creations are often born of small errors.
~ Josh Waitzkin
Musicians, actors, athletes, philosophers, scientists, writers understand that brilliant creations are often born of small errors.
~ Josh Waitzkin
He was young, and he had grown up wealthy; he didn't have the context. In his head she'd faced the consequences he would have had to face. Embarrassment. An angry parent. A different, maybe less impressive school. He was not from a place where people got only one shot or were allowed only one mistake. In his world there were infinite chances.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Rule: "My adult child should be able to balance out whatever mistakes I have made with all of the good that I have done as a parent." Counter: "While I wish that my child could see all of the ways that I have been dedicated, I
~ Joshua Coleman
No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
~ Joshua Harris
There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
~ Joy Harjo
Lo que importa no es cagarla, Yammara, óigame bien, lo que importa no es cagarla, sino saber remediar la cagada.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
A menudo en la vida, cuando mejor crees que van las cosas, es cuando más cerca estás de pifiarla a lo grande. Una cagada épica y espantosa que antes de cometerla te parecerá una magnífica idea. Tan buena que irás cantando y bailando hacia ella, como una cucaracha que se zambulle en un barreño de insecticida haciendo un doble tirabuzón.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Pedir perdón no es una varita mágica que se agita y borra de golpe nuestros errores.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
A menudo en la vida, cuando mejor crees que van las cosas, es cuando más cerca estás de pifiarla a lo grande. Una cagada épica y espantosa que antes de cometerla te parecerá una magnífica idea.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Es mucho más sencillo perdonar a otros por estar equivocados que por estar en lo cierto.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.
~ Judith Briles
Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.
~ Judith Henry Wall
Faith, my dear son, doesn't keep us from doing stupid things.
~ Judith Pella
But faith often helps cushion the blow of our mistakes, and God is always there to help us pick up the pieces.
~ Judith Pella
We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
~ Judith Viorst