Mistakes Quotes

She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

~ John Kramer

We never know where life is going to lead, Ethan. What so many small decisions are going to add up to.

~ Ali Standish

Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.

~ Kim Harrison

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

~ Unknown

It is amazing how much wisdom has been handed down through the ages, yet we still make the same mistakes.

~ Jeffrey Fry

I'm no stranger to fucking up.

~ Kathleen Glasgow

I used to hate looking at my markings. But the captain taught me they don't mean anything. Because I'm more than the sum of my mistakes.

~ Melissa Landers

If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I am available to make mistakes, I only prefer to make new ones.

~ Luigina Sgarro

It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn't dwell.

~ Meg Howrey

Pleading for forgiveness was always on the tip of her tongue. She had tried doing a good thing, but because of one thoughtless act, his two beautiful daughters were brutally raped, and running to the other side of the world hadn’t helped. Because of her, two innocent ADP employees were dead. She was older but not a shekel wiser, still opening the wrong doors.

~ Michael Benzehabe

Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time. Life is too broad for us to do everything so perfectly, but we must not justify our mistakes and slips when we know that we are far better than our mistakes! The best regret is to take a robust action in the right direction to prove how far better we are than our mistakes and slips.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

How could she be someone’s mistake?

~ Khadija Rupa

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remember best of all, though, was the sudden certainty that the gods were with me, that they would fight for me, that my sword would be their sword. ‘We’re going to win,’ I told my son. I felt as if Odin or Thor had touched me. I had never felt more alive and never felt more certain. I knew there would be no more mistakes and that this was no dream.I had come to Bebbanburg and Bebbanburg would be mine.

~ Bernard Cornwell

Don't confuse poor decision making with destiny. Take accountability for your life, cut out the drama, distance yourself from negativity, and move your life into a healthy direction.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop confusing poor decision-making with destiny. Take accountability. Wanting, praying, hoping, and wishing for change isn’t enough… Desire doesn’t changes lives; BEHAVIOR does.

~ Steve Maraboli

We all do make mistakes…many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don’t give up.

~ Girdhar Joshi

Some of life’s best lessons are learned through our worst mistakes.

~ Toni Sorenson

I doubt I'm any wiser than I was five hundred years back. I'm older. I've been up, and been down, and been up again. Have I learned aught? I've learned from my mistakes, but I've had more time to commit more mistakes.

~ Neil Gaiman

You’ve probably heard it before—if not, you’ve likely experienced it yourself.

~ Auliq Ice

And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.

~ Susie Morgenstern

The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.

~ C.s. Lewis

You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes.

~ Girdhar Joshi

she also liked to remember that there could be no such thing as an intentional imperfection. People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause.

~ House M.d.

The slinky and post-it notes are both products that came from mistakes. Don’t forget that mishaps can be turned into triumphs.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own, they crush good thinking and resistance as colonists with guns and cannons overcame spear-throwing natives.

~ Sherry Thomas

There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind.

~ Luigina Sgarro

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

~ Sally Green

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

~ Tallulah Bankhead

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

~ Edna Ferber

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.

~ Jazz Feylynn

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....

~ Richard Russo

Do you ever wonder how we all got here? On Earth, I mean. Forget the song and dance about Adam and Eve, which I know is a load of crap. My father likes the myth of the Pawnee Indians, who say that the star deities populated the world: Evening Star and Morning Star hooked up and gave birth to the first female. The first boy came from the Sun and the Moon. Humans rode in on the back of a tornado.Mr. Hume, my science teacher, taught us about this primordial soup full of natural gases and muddy slop and carbon matter that somehow solidified into one-celled organisms called choanoflagellates... which sound a lot more like a sexually transmitted disease than the start of the evolutionary chain, in my opinion. But even once you get there, it's a huge leap from an amoeba to a monkey to a whole thinking person.The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe, it took some doing to get from a point where there was nothing, to a point where all the right neurons fire and pop so that we can make decisions.More amazing is how even though that's become second nature, we all still manage to screw it up.

~ Jodi Picoult

Life turns on small choices.A last-minute decision to take a shortcut over a snowy pass.A shrugging dismissal of the odd-looking man in the long coat standing off to one side.A decision to postpone a physical exam till a less busy time.A word spoken with the best intentions.Looking back, after the lives are destroyed, the blood spilt, the families shattered, and even the courses of nations changed forever, the mistakes that started the doomsday clock ticking down often seem minor, even innocent-even virtuous. So easy to make.David Eller would give anything-no, everything-to go back and undo those mistakes. But life does not give us that chance. Like everyone else, he has no choice but to dangle from the hand of that clock, trying in vain to pull them backward as they tick inexorably toward zero.

~ William Carmichael

We are scared to make mistakes, so we fret over figuring out God’s will. We wonder what living according to His will would actually look and feel like, and we are scared to find out. We forget that we were never promised a 20-year plan of action; instead, God promises multiple times in Scripture never to leave or forsake us. God wants us to listen to His Spirit on a daily basis, and even throughout the day … My hope is that instead of searching for “God’s will for my life,” each of us would learnt to seek hard after “the Spirit’s leading in my life today.

~ Francis Chan

It's the problem with mistakes, they tend to linger.

~ Maria V. Snyder

As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons and sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.

~ Taylor Swift

The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’t stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I’m not sure that there is a cure for regret. I suspect not.

~ Nick Hornby