Mistakes Quotes

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today.

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

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

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I make my mistakes in public.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.