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Quotes About Mistakes

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
~ Unknown
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.
~ Virginia Satir
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
~ Virginia Satir
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
It is not he who makes no mistakes that is intelligent. There are no such men, nor can there be. It is he whose errors are not very grave and who is able to rectify them easily and quickly that is intelligent.
~ Vladimir Lenin
I have some rules of my own. One of them is never to regret anything. Over time, I came to the conclusion that this was the right thing to do. As soon as you start regretting and looking back, you start to sour. You always have to think about the future. You always have to look ahead. Of course you have to analyze your past mistakes, but only so that you can learn and correct the course of your life.
~ Vladimir Putin
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
~ Voltaire
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;
~ W.H. Auden
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here
~ W.S. Merwin
Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.
~ Robert Altman
I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
~ Joel Osteen
The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.
~ Ted Turner
We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
~ Christine Quinn
I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.
~ Reza Aslan
The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
~ Sara Genn
You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.
~ Shawn Michaels
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
~ Don Lemon
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
~ Robert Burchfield
C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.
~ Tom Christiansen
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations, and the effect of decisiveness itself makes things go and creates confidence.
~ Anne O'Hare McCormick
After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.
~ Zig Ziglar
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
~ Alexander Pope
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy