Mistakes Quotes

Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.

~ Robert Fanney

But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable. It is not going too far to say that the greatness of a scientific investigator does not rest on the fact of his having never made a mistake, but rather on his readiness to admit that he has done so, whenever the contrary evidence is cogent enough.

~ William Bayliss

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

~ Liane Holliday Willey

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it.And that’s not okay with me.

~ Dan Pearce

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

~ Ray Bradbury

Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?

~ Karen Ann Wirtz

The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in the present.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life is an act and we are the actors of life. Some are able to act well but some are crippled by the fear of fear. Be it good or bad, great or mediocre, we all do take steps in life; sometimes out of ignorance, out of pain, out of love, out of hatred, out of comfort and sometimes out of jealousy. We may slip as we take these steps in life but when we realize what we should have done, we ought to regret and take action

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

~ Maya Angelou

I won't do that when I'm a parent. I'll make different mistakes, of course.

~ Adrienne Stoltz

People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.

~ Anne Perry

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

~ Arzum Uzun

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

~ Agatha Christie

Free yourself from your mistakes; we have all made them. They only come as opportunities to learn and grow, so you could make wiser decisions and take better actions in the future.

~ Hafiz

Many people are yet to understand that admitting to their mistakes isn't a sign of weakness, but an act of wisdom.

~ Hafiz

It is impossible not to live miserably if one chooses to frequently focus on one's disappointments, mistakes, failures, weaknesses, difficulties, and people's negative opinions.

~ Hafiz

Don't for a second worry about those who would laugh or talk about you if you were to encounter failures or make mistakes. They definitely don't belong in your life, because they can never make or break you.

~ Hafiz

Focus on your true purpose in life and stop focusing on other people's flaws, mistakes and failures. The fulfillment of your positive purpose on earth truly needs your undivided attention.

~ Hafiz

Failures and mistakes are definitely the greatest teachers to all great minds.

~ Hafiz

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

~ Tammy L. Gray

If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.

~ Andrena Sawyer

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them the more you wish they'd never happened.

~ Gregory David Roberts

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they’d never happened.

~ Gregory David Roberts

Daughter, that's life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful. All any of us can do is to try to be ur best, and to learn from our mistakes, as well as our victories

~ P.c. Cast

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

~ Terry Goodkind

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

~ Raheel Farooq

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

~ Cassia Leo

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.

~ Nicole Guillaume

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

~ Ron Rash

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.

~ Marcia Lynn Mcclure

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall always miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall also miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

~ Shannon L. Alder