Quotes About Mistakes

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

I learnt, in those first few days, how numerous and devastating were the errors that it was possible to commit in carrying out the most ordinary functions of everyday life. To me, for whom meals had hitherto appeared as though by clockwork and the routine of a house had seemed to be worked by some invisible mechanism, the complications of sheer existence were nothing short of a revelation.

knowledge that men deliberately refused to perceive the obvious even when such perception was to their own advantage. Still optimistic in spite of the War, I had believed that statesmen needed only to realise the mistakes of the past in order to avoid them, only

Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible "do-over.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.

We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.

The essence of success and happiness results from actualizing your potential, which requires a constant process of learning and growing, as well as the recognition that making mistakes is an inevitable, even essential, part of life.

When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.

I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.

I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.