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Quotes About Mistake

Nevertheless, it was a terrible mistake on my part.
~ Terry Brooks
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young. - Cara
~ Terry Goodkind
While it was understandable to be afraid, and no one would expect you not to be, the worst thing you could do was to run from the trouble you had caused. No matter how accidental it was, you didn't try to deny it. You didn't run. You did what you must to right it.
~ Terry Goodkind
Rachel giggled and hugged her arms to his sides. "Look, Richard." She put a foot out toward him, showing off a shoe. "Chase brought down a buck. He said it was a mistake, because it was too big, so he traded it to a man, but all the man had to trade were these shoes, and this cloak. Aren't they wonderful? And Chase says I can keep them.
~ Terry Goodkind
If war is brought to you, then it is incumbent upon you to show no mercy. Surely you will be shown none, and you will be a traitor to your people and as good as their enemy if you let any clemency slip its bounds, for your people will pay for your mistake with their lives.
~ Terry Goodkind
Always listen to the parent who doesn't like who you love. They can smell a mistake. Of course, you don't find this out until you realize that the person you fell in love with is different from the person you married. Some men are good at fooling you.
~ Terry McMillan
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
~ Terry Pratchett
A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique. Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy.. Guild member? Not any more, sir. Oh? How did you leave the guild? Through the roof, sir. But I'm pretty certain I know what I did wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
~ Terry Pratchett
Rincewind's feet made their own decision and, from the point of view of his head, got it entirely wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett
Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).
~ Terry Pratchett
Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
~ Terry Pratchett
What's done cannot be undone. Lady Macbeth's
~ Tess Gerritsen
Domingo, your family needs you. Let me explain why I feel strongly that you must stay with them. I had a family once too that loved me. But I made a mistake. I was lured away by other things. When I realized they were what mattered, it was already too late.
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Most approaches to leadership share two common problems. As we've discussed in this chapter, they fail to account adequately for mindset and therefore put too much faith in our ability to change behavior without addressing mindset. In addition, however, a problem that originated in Western thought some four hundred years ago has led to mindset and leadership approaches that are built on a mistake.
~ The Arbinger Institute
The Mistake He left his pants upon a chair: She was a widow, so she said: But he was apprehended, bare, By one who rose up from the dead.
~ Theodore Roethke
I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.
~ Kaitlan Collins
Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong.
~ Charlie Munger
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.
~ Charlie Baker
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
~ William Mulholland
If you do something bad, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It means you had bad judgment.
~ Jon Jones
I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show.
~ Brea Grant
God made a mistake when he gave to humans, infected as they are with evil, jurisdiction over Earth. He should have given jurisdiction to animals.
~ Paul Craig Roberts