Mistakes Quotes

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.

~ Louise Antoine

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

~ Jessica Lave

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don’t let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.

~ Auliq Ice

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

~ Grace Llewellyn

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility

~ Mohamed Mohamed Adel

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

~ Albert Einstein

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

~ Jojo Moyes

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

~ Brandon Mull

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?

~ Simone Elkeles

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

~ Angie Thomas

Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.

~ Tahereh Mafi

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

~ Jeffrey Archer

You're the same as you were yesterday and the day before. Nothing has changed. Not really. Forget what troubles you. Regret nothing, but learn from any mistakes you make. Tomorrow will be a brighter day, I promise.

~ Morgan Rhodes

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

~ Norton Juster

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

~ Andy Rooney

That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.

~ Emma Cline

Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

~ Nick Hornby

I make mistakes, I'll be the second to admit it.

~ Jean Kerr

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

~ Lauren Myracle

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

~ Joan Collins

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

~ Plato

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

~ Julianna Baggott

I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. To bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

~ Emery Lord

It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.

~ Pyotr Kropotkin

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

~ Malcolm Forbes

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.

~ Charles Sheehan-Miles

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

~ Len Deighton

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

~ Nalini Singh

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

~ Peter Cook

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

~ Freya North

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.

~ Sara Poole

Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

~ Elizabeth Peters

I shake my head. Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes. She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek No mistakes, my angel.

~ Michelle Zink