Quotes About Mistakes

Why is there never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over?

By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

mistakes are just opportunities for learning something new—which, after all, is what scientific experiments are all about.

Sometimes smart people can do very, very stupid things.

You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it.

Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others—we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

Stupidity is always expensive

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Les vieilles habitudes sont comme une rigole creusée par l'eau, et qui, ensuite, en dirige le cours; et l'on répète les mêmes erreurs.

Religion is dangerous when it becomes absolutist and Manichean, that is, when it mistakes what always must be a finite and conditioned apprehension of the transcendent for the transcendent ground itself,

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Adrijene, nemoj da se duriš! Vrati se! U redu grešila sam duge godine nisam se vracala kuci, ali sam ti uvek krila da je to zato što sam bila u zatvoru! Grešila sam priznajem cesto sam tukla psa, ali sam te volela! Adrijene, nemoj da se duriš! Vrati se!

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them.

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

Assim é melhor. Então você ainda gosta dele? Terá que esquecer, Virgínia. Amar a pessoa errada não é das melhores coisas que nos podem acontecer e acontece com tanta frequência. Dante se esqueceu desse círculo no seu inferno, o dos rejeitados.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

It takes less courage to end your life in a burst of glory than to face the mistakes you've made and start over.