Quotes About Mistakes

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn't as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

To smile sincerely is acceptable after making mistakes – that is the best way to feel cheerful and repeat the same mistakes.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future...

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

You know your goals and what you need to do to get better-just eliminate the bad plays.

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.