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Quotes About Mistakes

There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
~ Lisa Gardner
Most people don't need the help of strangers to screw up their lives; most of them are quite capable of doing it themselves!
~ Lisa Gardner
But we all behaved badly in that house; not one of us got out of there without a black mark. I've come to accept our sins as survival strategies.
~ Lisa Jewell
There is nothing worse than a man who can't spell — it takes all the romance out of cards and love letters and things.
~ Lisa Jewell
If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
~ Samuel Dash
You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
~ Imelda May
The Vancouver Olympics was the first competition where I completed the short and free programs without any mistakes, and that in itself was a huge achievement.
~ Kim Yuna
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
~ Steve Kanaly
As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.
~ Hirokazu Kore-eda
I don't think anyone leaves Las Vegas rejuvenated, their skin shining, their bank accounts glowing. No one leaves Vegas, like, 'I didn't make one mistake. That felt great. Back to work.'
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
~ Carl Sandburg
Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.
~ Mike Barnicle
Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.
~ Joe Gebbia
I could sit here and tell you that I was the perfect child that followed all the rules and never got in trouble, but I would be lying up a fierce storm. Engaging with the younger you who made those mistakes helps you give some grace to the children of today who are making their own.
~ Unknown
People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might
~ Jeffery Deaver
There's a reason narcissists don't learn from mistakes and that's because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It's always an assistant's fault, an adviser's fault, a lawyer's fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they'll say, 'what mistake?
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong
~ Jenna Black
A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should've never done.
~ Jennifer Coburn
A life well-lived is a life filled with mistakes and stupid shit you should've never done." The
~ Jennifer Coburn
If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard...
~ Jennifer Crusie
You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again.
~ Jennifer Weiner
You make the wrong choices, you make mistakes, you disappear for a decade, you marry the wrong man. You get hurt. You lose sight of who you are, or of who you want to be, and then you remember, and if you're lucky you have sisters or friends who remind you when you forget your best intentions. You come back to yourself, again and again. You try, and fail, and try again, and fail again. She
~ Jennifer Weiner