Quotes About Mistakes

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with memories of their past?

Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.

Sometimes people forget to be sympathetic and instead they blame you for everything, even for the things you did when you had no idea they were wrong.

F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]

Connie's other job was proof-editing which she did very badly. Transferring the author's corrections to a clean sheet of proofs was something Connie was unable to do without missing an average of three corrections a page, or transcribing newly inserted material all wrong... she put angry authors' letters about the mutilation of their books under the cushion of her chair to deal with later

Whoever thinks that in high personages new benefits cause old offences to be forgotten, makes a great mistake.

I'd had a couple of spectacular mishaps in the magic department recently, so I didn't like to mess with actual humans anymore, not if I could help it.

there's a real risk today of repeating those mistakes—of coming together around lowest-common-denominator demands such as "Impeach Trump" or "Elect Democrats" and, in the process, losing our focus on the conditions and politics that allowed Trump's rise and are fueling the growth of far-right parties around the world.

it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake.

The world will forgive you if you make mistakes, but it will never forgive you if you make no DECISIONS, because it will never hear of you outside of the community in which you live.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

Es más eficiente dejar que los demás cometan errores que confiar en acertar uno a la primera.

Ya es lo único que nos une, ¿sabe usted? El recuerdo. Uno comete muchos errores en la vida, señorita, y sólo se da cuenta cuando es viejo.

Wiedzia?a z do?wiadczenia, ?e przysz?o?? pozostawi jej a? nadto czasu, by ?ali? si? nad b??dami pope?nionymi w przesz?o?ci.

One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's. Do what you have to do and come back soon. Or whenever you can.

What Fermín says is that wise men own up when they sometimes make mistakes, but idiots always make mistakes, even though they never admit it and always think they're right. He calls it his Archimedean Principle of Communicable Imbecilities.' 'Oh, does he?' 'Yes. According to him, an idiot is an animal who doesn't know how to, or is unable to, change his mind.

It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but we only realize this when old age creeps up on us.

L'esperienza le aveva insegnato che il futuro le avrebbe riservato più tempo di quanto fosse tollerabile per lamentarsi degli errori commessi in passato.

Uno tiene que cometer sus propios errores, no los de los demás.

On certain occasions—none of which should apply to you or to the immediate future—a father must be disobeyed.' 'Why?' 'Because some fathers, unlike yours, make mistakes when they judge what is best for their children.

La experiencia ya le había enseñado que el futuro le reservaría más tiempos del tolerable para lamentarse de los errores cometidos en el pasado.

One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.…