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Quotes About Mistakes

Don't be afraid to fail. Persevere through mistakes and struggles. Stay focused, patient, confident, and smart and you'll have a better chance of making money.
~ James McKenna
One good thing is that I've been following the priest's orders to meditate on how I've hurt people. It's helped me recognize that we can't help but make mistakes, even when our intentions are good.
~ James Patterson
Maybe I was being stubborn and stupid and making the wrong decisions. It wouldn't be the first time, and god knows it surely won't be the last. Because I was going to bust out of this joint if it was the last thing I did. One simply had to figure out how.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
~ Jay Mohr
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.
~ Ridley Scott
Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.
~ Peter Diamandis
What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
~ Alice Englert
It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
~ Natalie Cole
Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.
~ Trinny Woodall
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
~ Nelson Mandela
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.
~ John Jay Hooker
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
~ Mason Cooley
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
~ Eskinder Nega
Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.
~ Richard M. DeVos
It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
~ George Eliot
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
~ Jean Kerr
One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.
~ Juanita M. Kreps
The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.
~ Lindsay Lohan
It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.
~ Miuccia Prada
I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.
~ Scott Baio
I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.
~ Shari Wiedmann