mistakes quotes

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.

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

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

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.

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

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

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

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.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

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

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

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

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.

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

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

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

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

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

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.