Quotes About Mistakes

Now arrogance and error would reap the usual dividends

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

Finally, I must thank the boy, for forgiving me for all that I have fumbled, broken and lost, and the simple fact that, sometimes, I just don't have good sense.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Each time our heart is broken, we should learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistakes. However, often there is nothing we could have done to save the relationship.

We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don't like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.

God's given your filthy slate the complete clean-up service – even the mess you haven't yet done. Least you can do is go easy on people who let you down every now and then.

You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether you screwed up big-time, though it's too late either way.

It's hard to look the people you love in the face when they've seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it's easier to rebuild your life if you're with someone who's been as low as you've been.

Errors carry the keys to your salvation.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

Being integrated means being able to accept all aspects of one's self. An integrated man is able to embrace everything that makes him unique: his power, his assertiveness, his courage, and his passion, as well as his imperfections, his mistakes, and his dark side.

We catch ourselves thinking, in the bitterness that can accompany the unexpected sound of an aluminum can bending underfoot, that it would have been merciful if Columbus had been wrong and the world flat, with an edge from which to fall, rather than a circular cage that returns us to our mistakes. The geography seems hopeless.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

Only later in life did I learn that failure can be the best teacher

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Then I could start to see that the "accidents" and "coincidences" are really miracles. That the "mistakes" are really opportunities for growth.