Quotes About Mistakes

Too much talk will include errors.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Men are men, they needs must err.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong."

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.