Quotes About Mistakes

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

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.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

I love journaling because I have found it to be a place of compassion for my mistakes and a challenge to learn from them. It reveals all the hidden places, and as you discover and move through them, you see that that's where all the answers are.

As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

PiÅŸmanl?k, özür dilemekten daha öte bir ÅŸeydir. güçlü bir duygudur. PiÅŸman olan bir kimse, kendisinden ve yapt??? ÅŸeyden utan?r. Gerçek piÅŸmanl?k ve onunla birlikte varolan utanma duygusu, daha önce yap?lm?? olan yanl??l?klar?n (suçlar?n) tekrarlanmamas?n? saÄŸlayan yegane insani duygudur. (Hayat? Sevmek)

Regret is the most useless thing in the world. One cannot recall anything. And one cannot rectify anything. Otherwise we would all be saints. Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I don't see how in the course of having to make endless decisions one can avoid some mistakes.

I feel like you hate your life more than you could ever love me. And I was stupid to think otherwise. I guess it's true what they say—love makes you stupid. Even a girl like me.

We're no kin," Thomas Hudson said. "We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever know, gave marvelous advice. He distilled it out of the bitter mash of all his previous mistakes with the freshening additions of the new mistakes he was about to make and he gave it with an accuracy and precision that carried the authority of a man who had heard all the more grisly provisions of his sentence and gave it no more importance than he had given to the fine print on a transatlantic steamship ticket.

Before, I trusted too much and was naive. Now I realize that even the best people can't always get it right and end up acting out. We are all human and anyone is capable of doing what Anais did, even me.

Never for a moment believe that the great body of citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do wrong. They may, under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, commit mistakes; they may be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest; but in a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the United States argument will soon make them sensible of their errors, and when convinced they will be ready to repair them.

Always afraid of making mistakes, always afraid of making wrong decisions, always trying to be perfect; fact is no one is perfect, and the best lessons derive from the mistakes and the wrong decisions we make. Don't be afraid of mistakes, and never regret the decisions you make; use them as a life lesson, and build on them.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

Yet in all the anxiety of these days Churchill never lost his sense of humour. When an MP asked him on 8 June to ensure that the same mistakes over reparations were not made after victory that had been made after the Great War, the Prime Minister assured him that 'That is most fully in our minds. I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated. We shall probably make another set of mistakes.

Chapter XVIII – Everything That Could Possibly Go Wrong

The subordinate did poor work. My associate's reaction: 'He has to make his own mistakes. That's how he learns!' The problem with this is that the subordinate's tuition is paid by his customers. And that is absolutely wrong.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

The law, however, was clear – a captain on his own quarterdeck might make mistakes, but being wrong was not one of them.

Anche gli errori contano per me», disse Geralt con sforzo. «Non li cancello né dalla mia vita né dalla mia memoria. E non do mai la colpa agli altri.