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Quotes About Mistakes

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
~ George Orwell
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
~ Jamal Lewis
Life is about making mistakes. Death is about wishing you made more.
~ Jennifer Aniston
I can't think of anything I would do differently in my life. It would be nice to undo some of my mistakes I made over the years, but then I wouldn't have grown professionally or personally.
~ LaVell Edwards
Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
~ LL Cool J
You need to learn to live with your mistakes. And you need to be in a position to say No once in a while. It's important in life, and it's important for any career that you want to pursue.
~ Russell Crowe
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
~ Bill Watterson
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
~ Henry Rollins
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
~ Jamel Shabazz
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
~ Bill Gates
When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
~ Jeanette Winterson
My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.
~ Jeff Ross
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
~ Edward Dahlberg
I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
~ James Hilton, Lost Horizon
And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she'd worn, the insecurity she'd felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Learn from the mistakes of others you won't have time to make them all your self
~ Jill Shalvis
I've said for years — ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero — that it's important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. It's paralyzing. Art, whether it's writing or painting or anything else, requires risk. And risk means you're going to make mistakes. Sometimes you're going to fail.
~ Jim C. Hines
It was an elegant trap, one which had claimed the sanity of many libriomancers over the years. As you exhausted yourself physically and mentally, your judgment eroded as well, leading you to make mistakes when you could least afford them. Sleep was the best cure. Naturally, insomnia was a common side effect of magic use.
~ Jim C. Hines
I have seen that the failure to set manageable goals is as common a mistake as any other. People get confused because they don't have a step-by-step plan. They casually talk about goals and results, or objectives, but they don't really know how to distinguish between them.
~ Jim Camp
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
~ Jim Dale
There are always consequences to wrong choices.
~ Jim George
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
~ Jim Horning