Quotes About Mistakes

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.

I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live."

Embracing your mistakes and highlighting your flaws disables your enemies instantly. (IDCE2013 conference)

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.