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Quotes About Mistakes

Without the possibility of making mistakes, we wouldn't need to bother about making a decision.
~ Unknown
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
~ Julia Child
Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.
~ Julia Child
Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.
~ Julia Child
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
~ Albert Ellis
I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.
~ Marcus Porcius Cato
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
~ Alice Munro
The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.
~ Princess Diana
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
~ Jesse Jackson
I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!
~ Mark Twain
For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
~ Marcel Proust
To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.
~ Charles Dickens
There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.
~ Unknown
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
~ Emily Thorne
Forgive others often yourself never.
~ Syrus
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
~ Tiffeny Milbrett
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
~ Carol Grace
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
~ John W. Gardner
Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.
~ Hugh Prather
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
~ R. K. Milholland