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Quotes About Mistakes

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
~ Steven Wright
Almorante's fey mystic was gone for good. He remembered how he was that time in Recolletine with Khaster and how it seemed now as if that boy had never lived. He'd believed he was clever enough to guide Khaster and himself through dangerous waters to safety, but he'd been careless, too confident. He still had his shine, but it was the radiance of a black sun now, full of poison.
~ Storm Constantine
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.
~ Sudhir Kakar
yes, I have slept with the wrong men, and never with the wrong dog.
~ Susan Chernak McElroy
But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
~ John McEnroe
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.
~ Mark Zandi
My faith in God has been the rudder that has allowed me to soar above the fray and to stay grounded and to learn from my mistakes.
~ Philip Bailey
You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
~ Cameron Dallas
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
~ Evan Osnos
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
~ Sarah Churchwell
I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.
~ Colin Trevorrow
As a young centre-back at Ajax, I played with Wim Jansen, and of course you learn a huge amount. I made some mistakes, because we Dutchmen want to solve situations by playing football. So we look at the ball, try to judge where it will come.
~ Frank Rijkaard
I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.
~ Yolanda Hadid
All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
~ J. J. Abrams
There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of.
~ Jim Kelly
I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
~ Aaron Carter
Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn't mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one.
~ Josh Rosen
I was doing hard personally and did some things I probably shouldn't have done. We've all got our cross to bear.
~ Phil Rudd
VAR exposes everything. Before we didn't have the possibility of seeing some things that we now see. The referees are people who can be wrong as well.
~ Diego Simeone
Remember success never comes easy and on the journey you will make mistakes, win some and lose some, get some things right and wrong. But always keep in mind that it is not about how many times you fall down - its about how many times you get up after falling.
~ Robbie Savage
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
~ Joan Collins
If you look at my professional history as a goalkeeper, I'm not somebody who makes many.
~ Alisson
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
In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.
~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett