mistakes quotes

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

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

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.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

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.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

An author writes a book, and that’s the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

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

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

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.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

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

No driver is perfect.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

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

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.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

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

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.

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

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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.

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.

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

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

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

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

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

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.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

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 don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

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

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

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.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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

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

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.