Quotes About Mistakes

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form.

I'm horrible with money. I make bad business decisions every hour of the day.

People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

An entrepreneur is someone who can make enough money to pay for their mistakes.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.

This failure to ask reflects human stupidity less than it reflects human history.

Families are delicate things. Who's to say why or how we end up the way we do or become who we are? Parents make mistakes. A child's job is to overcome those mistakes. We can blame our parents - and our own past - for only so long before it becomes an excuse and a crutch. That's my position on family dynamics and I'm sticking to it. Sometimes you just have to assume responsibility for your own life and grow up.

Marie Clay (1993) refers to this as attending to the "partially correct." Its significance cannot be overstated.

You can't spend your life sulking over all the mistakes you've made. You'd never bother getting out of bed in the morning.

You have to catch people making mistakes and make it so that it's cool. You have to make it undesirable to play it safe.

TRUSTING THE MOMENT Most of us spend the bulk of our time caught up in thoughts of the past or the future—which can be dangerous if your job is winning basketball games. Basketball takes place at such a lightning pace that it's easy to make mistakes and get obsessed with what just happened or what might happen next, which distracts you from the only thing that really matters—this very moment.