Quotes About Mistakes

Everyone is entitled to be foolish sometimes, but many people abuse the privilege.

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

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city to a fiery death.

Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine.

For instance, we lose points for wrong answers on tests in school.

People fail for the most part because they shoot themselves in the foot. If you go for a long time without shooting yourself in the foot, other people start calling you a genius.

Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test before giving the lesson.—UNKNOWN

Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else's mistakes.

Do not worry about failure, I would tell them. Do not worry about making mistakes in life. It is good to lose money, to go broke at least once, and preferably twice. But if you are going to do it, do it early in your career. It is better to go bust when you are talking about $20,000 than when you are talking about $20 million. Do it early, and it is not the end of the world.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The child has the right to respect,' Ã¢â'¬Â he said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœThe child has the right to develop. The child has the right to be. The child has the right to grieve. The child has the right to learn. And the child has the right to make mistakes.' 

Omnipotence convinces one that all his decisions are infallible. Can you aid a fallen God now that he sees the error of his ways?

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

none of us make it through life without committing a faux pas that requires a serious, heartfelt, breast-beating apology. By

The worst part of being a parent is knowing you'll make mistakes, and fearing them, and feeling the pain that accompanies the inevitability of letting your child down. But two people can better strategize. Two people can talk through the process. Two people can bear the disappointments more fully and comfort each other with the reminder "we did our best.

It was a perfect system, so long as the universe was deterministic and so long as humans did not make any errors.

And if I fight, then for what?" "For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.