Quotes About Mistakes

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.

I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgiveableness.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

People are human. They make mistakes." "They can make mistakes on someone else's dime." Mom's face held no mercy.

Io non trovo mai nessuna difficoltà ad ammettere di essermi sbagliato perché sono convinto che l'infallibilità sia un'esclusiva di Dio e degli imbecilli.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it.

We read history in order not to have to repeat it. When I

Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active — of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.

Some people conflate forgiveness with absolution

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat

You're always wanting to be forgiven. What do you want to be forgiven for?

Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.