Quotes About Mistakes

Dovevamo ancora imparare che il Diavolo ha creato la gioventù per farci commettere i nostri errori e che Dio ha istituito la maturità e la vecchiaia per consentirci di pagarne il prezzo.

A man didn't make mistakes. He made choices. Bad once stayed with him for a long time, but with a little luck and a lot of hard work, hopefully not forever. With planning and diligence, he could make amends.

It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell upon them. —playwright Lillian Hellman

There are plenty of good reasons for admitting mistakes, starting with the simple likelihood that you will probably be found out anyway—by

Caroline B. Cooney

Because you can make decisions for yourself even if they're wrong. Mistakes can be corrected. Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

Life is too short to have everyone else tell you how to live. Make a few mistakes, and learn from them. At least they'll be real, and you'll be living, not just existing.

They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder why it is so miserable?

And in answer the words trembled on his lips - the words which are surely the root of all human grief - so that he almost said aloud : 'Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.

There were worse things than being young and foolish.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

We see being Flawed as a strength, Celestine. If you make a mistake, you learn from it. If you never make a mistake, you're never the wiser. These so-called perfect leaders we have now have never made a mistake. How can they have learned what's right and wrong, how could they have learned anything about themselves? About what they feel comfortable doing, about what they feel is beyond the scope of their character? The more mistake you have made, the more you have learned.

People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots.

Pero la mayoría de las veces, las decisiones fáciles son las erróneas y e ocasiones sentimos que vamos hacia atrás cuando en realidad estamos avanzando.

Don't worry, nothing speaks louder than a lifetime of regret and self-loathing.

Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie Holiday made her think of Eric Dalton; Iron & Wine was Jeremiah; and if things didn't work out with Kara, she'd never be able to listen to Bob Dylan again. By the time she reached her twenties, she'd be a huge, lumbering mass of musical baggage.

You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

that gloomy kind of mood where you remember all of your mistakes and none of your good decisions

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.