Quotes About Mistakes

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

It is an injustice to the Negro, however, to mis-educate him and suffer his manners to be corrupted from infancy unto old age and then blame him for making the mistakes which such guidance necessitates.

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

The younger generation should always learn from the older — even if only from their mistakes.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Aun los mejores hombres, si actúan por sí mismos, cometerán graves equivocaciones. Mientras mayores responsabilidades se coloquen sobre el agente humano, mientras más encumbrado sea su cargo para determinar y controlar, más males hará con seguridad pervirtiendo mentes y corazones si no sigue cuidadosamente el camino del Señor.

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

I have made more mistakes than you can possibly imagine," Ned said, "but that was not one of them.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

Wer sich an die Vergangenheit nicht erinnert, ist dazu verdammt sie zu wiederholen.

Chi non conosce la storia è condannato a ripeterla.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

That remains part of the problem—that we don't know the unpleasant aspects of American history...and therefore we don't learn the lesson those chapters have to teach us. So we repeat them over and over again.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?