Mistakes Quotes

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

~ Michele Bachmann

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

~ Alveda King

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

~ Janine Turner

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

~ Marina Abramović

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

~ Mark Udall

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

~ Alice Englert

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

~ Mary Gaitskill

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

~ John Gutfreund

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

~ Cullen Hightower

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

~ Jack Ma

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

~ John C. Maxwell

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

~ Sophia Amoruso

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

~ Adrian Grenier

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

~ William J. Clinton

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

~ Al Franken

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

~ Drew Barrymore

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

~ Dale Carnegie

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

~ Conrad Hilton

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

~ Camillo Di Cavour

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

~ Kevin Plank

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

~ Nancy Gibbs

All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

~ James Caan

I take all of my life lessons, which some people might call 'mistakes,' and apply them to my future so that I keep growing.

~ Kimberly Caldwell

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

~ E. T. Bell