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Quotes About Mistakes

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
~ Clarence Darrow
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
~ Price Pritchett
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
~ George Harrison
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.
~ William H. Hastie
Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.
~ Nicole Kidman
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
~ Jack Abramoff
If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.
~ Nicole Kidman
I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.
~ Bonnie Raitt
Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.
~ Damon Lindelof
People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
~ Roxane Gay
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
~ Murray Walker
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
~ George Bernard Shaw
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
~ Mae West
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eragon
We made too many wrong mistakes.
~ Yogi Berra
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
~ Scott Adams
I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 different ways to do it wrong.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
~ Steven Wright
No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.
~ Shannon L. Alder
I'm going to write a book about an intelligent woman who does stupid things when it comes to men. I'll call it, "My Memoirs.
~ N.M. Silber
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school
~ Josh Stern
We got the spell exactly right. Except for the ingredients. And most of the poetry. And it probably wasn't the right time. And Gytha took most of it home for the cat, which couldn't of been proper.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters