Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

No driver is perfect.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

I made lots of mistakes – the number one mistake being trusting other people with my money.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.