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Quotes About Mistakes

In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.
~ Sam Allardyce
When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.
~ Frank Abagnale
One of the reasons I didn't make it in the NBA - I played 3 1/2 years - and one of the reasons I was in Europe for 20 years was because I lost my confidence. That comes from coaches that are emphasizing the mistakes, taking you out anytime you make one.
~ Mike D'Antoni
Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.
~ Phil Hellmuth
I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.
~ India Arie
We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.
~ Alisson
I try to give my all on the pitch but, like all humans, I make mistakes and I'm not ashamed to admit that.
~ Jordi Alba
I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.
~ Sean Quinn
Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.
~ Roger Moore
I've done things in the media I was not only not proud of, I was ashamed of.
~ Nadya Suleman
We all have things we're ashamed of.
~ Bianca Del Rio
Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai
~ Honore de Balzac
Sometimes even good old Homer nods.
~ Horace
it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.
~ Unknown
The important thing you need to learn is to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
~ Howard Storm
It is not true that people learn nothing from history: they are marvellous at learning the wrong lessons.
~ Hugh Brogan
Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.
~ Hugh Laurie
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
~ Hugh Leonard
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
~ Hugh Prather
Nuorten velvollisuus on erehtyä! Millaisia nuoria ne muuten olisivat?
~ Hugo Pratt
Pakistanis are a pious, warm and hospitable people,' wrote Richard Leiby, a Washington Post reporter who spent a year and a half there, lamenting that the news from Pakistan did not reflect that. He noted, however, that the bad news about Pakistan was not untrue. In his view, 'Just like average Americans', the simple Pakistani people 'pay the price of their leaders' magnificent mistakes'.
~ Husain Haqqani
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Hyman George Rickover
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Hyman Rickover
young make foolish mistakes when they think they are in love. "You are quite sure he is guilty?" "Reasonably. We have ruled out robbery.
~ Unknown