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Quotes About Mistakes

there is no man, however wise, who has not at some time in his youth said or done things that are so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly expunge them from his memory if he could. In years to come, I will not be haunted by the guilt of all the good I didn't do.
~ Graham McNeill
What is a history teacher? He's someone who teaches mistakes.
~ Graham Swift
I will learn by screwing up.
~ Greg Bear
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. —MULLA NASRUDIN
~ Gregory Benford
We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.
~ Gregory Dickow
The things that go wrong often make the best memories.
~ Gretchen Rubin
It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
~ Griffin Dunne
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
~ Guido van Rossum
Mais pouvait-on, en une journée, racheter les erreurs de toute une vie?
~ Guillaume Musso
Kada po?nemo da kopamo po prošlosti, nastaju nevolje.
~ Guillaume Musso
Barça had finished the league eighteen points behind Madrid the previous season and, at times like that, sportsmen typically need somebody to show them the way, point out to them how to correct mistakes.
~ Guillem Balagué
What makes you grow is defeat, making mistakes. It is what keeps you alert. When you win you think: "Great, we've won.
~ Guillem Balagué
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken—rather than being careful with them in the first place.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Success is fucking up on your own terms.
~ Guillermo del Toro
When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy
~ Gurcharan Das
When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.
~ Gurcharan Das
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
~ Guy Finley
We are not gods. We make mistakes. We do not live very long. Sometimes someone grinds ink, mixes it with water, arranges paper, takes up a brush to record our time, our days, and we are given another life in those words.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.
~ Guy Standing
I aim to anatomise some of the linguistic horrors of our time, work out where we've been going wrong (and why), and come up with some tips and tricks to help show how, in future, we can make fewer (rather than 'less') mistakes. All right? Is 'alright' all right? You'll find out right here.
~ Gyles Brandreth
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
~ H. Fred Dale
I make mistakes like the next person. In fact, "I have learned all kinds of things from my mistakes. The one thing I never learned is how to stop making them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
In a world filled with mistakes just waiting to be made. Be thankful you already made all the wrong ones. Now, you could make all the right ones.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else's." "Nobody but you can take responsibility for your life.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)