Mistakes Quotes

Trust yourself. Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else’s.

~ Jeffrey Fry

The biggest mistake is trusting the wrong people who generally are also the dumbest.

~ Marino Baccarini

In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The past is never a mistake if you have learnt from it. I have learnt never to trust someone so much that it hurts your expectations.

~ Sudeep Nagarkar

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

The major mistake people pursue in decision making is to surround themselves with negatively minded people. People who are going nowhere will never take you anywhere, people who are going everywhere can take you somewhere.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never let the little things, disrupt the biggest things you cherish in life. The smallest mistake, can cause the biggest regret and hurt to your closest companion.

~ Unarine Ramaru

You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.

~ Anthony Liccione

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

~ Dada Bhagwan

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

~ Donald L. Hicks

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.

~ Mother Teresa

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

~ Linda Sue Park

The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.

~ Ildefonso Falcones

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

~ Linda Berdoll

Each one of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Anyone who can't forgive someone else for screwing up is deluding themselves. Because we've all made mistakes every bit as bad. And we're each praying we'll be forgiven, too.

~ Edward W. Robertson

You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.

~ Laura Aranda

We all fail at times or make huge mistakes. I was among the worst. It can hurt. It can crush your spirit. To move on, we need to learn to sincerely forgive ourselves... again and again and again and again. As many times as necessary - so we can be able to feel the peace we need in our souls to keep living. Not just to be alive, but to live.Of course it also helps to forgive others when we are ready and able to, but its crucial that we need to learn to forgive ourselves too.

~ José N. Harris

Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes—sometimes tragic mistakes—then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.

~ J.d. Brewer

You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

~ Jennifer Gracen

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

~ Steve Goodier

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

~ Dean Koontz

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

~ Michael Lee West

The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.

~ Miguel Ruiz

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.

~ Shane Claiborne

A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option.

~ Justin David Nevins

And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.

~ Natalie Lloyd

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

~ Lois Lowry

You are much more than your mistakes, much bigger than your failures and much more beautiful than your ugliest moment. The stumbles we experience in life may shame us or humble us with valuable tough lessons but they will never define who we truly are. No matter your mistake…it’s important to remember that You are someone’s light in the darkness; a beacon of love and hope and that should ALWAYS supersede the superficial imperfections we erroneously internalize. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

~ Keith Cooper

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

~ Gayle Forman

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

~ Rebecca Solnit

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

~ Gillian Flynn

A man ought to learn from his mistakes.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mistakes are stepping stones for great achievement.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

We have to accept that there are certain things in our life that are inescapable. These are the things that come natural to us and are necessary to our existence.

~ Auliq Ice

Don't care about *new* mistakes you are going to make, take care that you don't just repeat older ones.

~ Prerak Trivedi