Quotes About Mistakes

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.

People lie. People disagree. People make mistakes. To find out the truth, you have to know how to search for it.

Sometimes it sucks, being good, because if you make a mistake then everybody makes a mistake and if something goes wrong it's your fault, it falls on your shoulders.

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse.

Le preguntaron a Abboud of Omdurman: "¿Qué es mejor, ser joven o ser viejo?" Él dijo: "Ser viejo es tener menos tiempo ante ti y más errores detrás. Dejo a tu elección si esto es mejor que lo contrario.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections.

As the saying goes, "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

In reality it is not the mistakes we make that are responsible for tense human relations, it is the lack of courage in admitting them.

When we sin or make a mistake, we try to learn from it. We don't hold on to it and nurse our feelings of unworthiness.

First and foremost he must learn to be faithful to his superiors, to keep promises, to refuse the friendship of all who are not like him. And if he finds he has made a mistake, then he must not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending his ways.

It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, 'Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.' Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.

It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something

A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.

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

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

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

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

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

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. Th ey make mistakes, but they don't quit

Never could Mathias give the right answer, but always had he an excuse for being wrong. "I was just a thinkin'," he'd fend himself. "If I hadn't been a thinkin', I wouldn't a thought that way.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.