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Quotes About Mistake

I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
~ Unknown
But sometimes the strong mistake their strength
~ Paul S. Kemp
It is the return of a dog to his vomit.
~ Paul Verlaine
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
~ Paullina Simons
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
Si yo errare este papel, no me podré quejar de él, de mí me podré quejar.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Mendo: "No es torpe, no, la invención; mas un cazador de ley no debe hacer tal acción pues oyendo el esquilón toman las aves por buey a vuestro padre el barón." Moncada: "Es verdad, no había caído... Vuestra advertencia es muy justa y os agradezco el cumplido. ¡El barón, por buey tenido!... No me gusta; no me gusta.
~ Unknown
How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.
~ Peg Bracken
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
~ Peggy Joyce
When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.
~ Unknown
continued failure at winning their regard forces her to conclude that she is fatally flawed. She is loveless not because of her mistakes, but because she is a mistake. She can only see what is wrong with or missing in her.
~ Unknown
deeper psychological health is seen only when you can maintain a posture of self-love and self-respect in the times of emotional hurt that accompany life's inevitable contingencies of loss, loneliness, confusion, uncontrollable unfairness, and accidental mistake.
~ Unknown
In 'A Scandal in Bohemia', he said it was a capital mistake to theorize without data, because you ended up twisting facts to suit theories instead of the other way around.
~ Peter Abrahams
Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that's the important part. And people often act stupidly when it comes to love. I know I did.
~ Peter Cameron
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.
~ Peter Drucker
Formal address wrongness. Much sorriness. Greetings ritual observance.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
We all have a bad morning after at some point in our lives.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Queuing to pick up their Darwin Award
~ Peter F. Hamilton
It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.
~ Peter Hook
Freedom includes the freedom to be foolish, to be sick. Free choice includes the freedom to choose badly.
~ Unknown
Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
~ Genesis 43:12