Mistakes Quotes

Remember, if you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!

~ Allison Gappa Bottke

What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time, I’m preparing my next mistake.

~ Bertolt Brecht

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It's shocking the things we call love.

~ Deb Caletti

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

~ Nora Roberts

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

~ Michael Chabon

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds, these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

~ Bhikkhu Bodhi

We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.

~ Arthur Quiller-Couch

No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.

~ Tess Gerritsen

Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ....but Relation is a book of dictionary -----So don't lose a full Book for a single page.

~ Rubeccapalm Rose

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world needs people who have survived mistakes, tragedies, and trials to help the rest of us through. Where would we be if Victor Frankl had never experienced what he did during the war? He wouldn’t have used his experiences to benefit millions of people around the world. The world needs you to let go of self-pity and shame regarding your life experiences, too. The world needs you to use the things you have learned for good. Stop letting your past mistakes define you and affect your value. Let go of separation and victimhood and find meaning in what you have been through.

~ Kimberly Giles

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it....

~ 50 Cent

There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery--

~ Dante Alighieri

Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.

~ Criss Jami

And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

~ Sarah Palin

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

~ Aimee Liu

Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.

~ Garth Stein

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

~ Criss Jami

Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.'Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline.'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.''Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.

~ Julie Anne Long

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

~ Katherine Paterson

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

~ Mercedes Lackey

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

~ Edith Wharton

The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.

~ Rutledge Etheridge

None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making.

~ Emi Iyalla

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.

~ Lisi Harrison

Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.

~ Steven Magee

Think before you do! Don’t ever be in haste to make a mistake, for that can be a big mistake! Think before you do!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you live long enough as a parent nowadays, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about along with the ones you do know about all too well. You are somewhat humbled at heart, sometimes disgusted with yourself.

~ Alice Munro

Don’t leave your life behind as you live life! You have a true life to live! Live life and learn life! Face life and challenge life! Challenge life and win life! Win life and understand life! Life is a challenge and we are here to challenge and win life! Not until you wake up to be a master of your life, you shall always keep sleeping on your own destiny! All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey, and they met the most heartbreaking moments, but regardless of their slips and all that they endured, their biggest glory always came from the wild animals they could kill with their mere weapons!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Live life and learn life! Face life and challenge life! Challenge life and win life! Win life and understand life! All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey, and they met the most heartbreaking moments, but regardless their slips, their biggest glory always came from the wild animals they could kill with their mere weapons!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)

~ Raymond Chandler

All good and great hunters once upon a time shot wrongly, missed a good prey, went home tired and weary without a prey and they also met the most heart breaking moments, but regardless their slips and challenges, their biggest glory always came from the wildest animals they could kill with their mere weapons!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Own your mistakes. Even when you’re in the process ofscrewing up.

~ Amber Hurdle

Make sure people learn and grow from mistakes, and that they share that learning. But, don’t accept the same mistake twice. Only make new mistakes.

~ Phil Dourado

I keep having this fantasy about some wide river or channel I'm on the bank of. I can look up, and on the far side is another, better self, holding hands with Mercer—that's his name, my ex—and both of them are watching me flail over here, watching me from the life I'm supposed to have had. When did it become impossible to get there from here? When did that bridge get burned?

~ Garth Risk Hallberg