Mistakes Quotes - Page 12

Stop chasing society’s definition of success and chase your own definition of success. Success is an emotion that is experienced when you are completely fulfilled and content with where you are in life; it has nothing to do with a specific job, a specific amount of money in your bank account, or the quality of material possessions you acquire. You can be the richest man in the world, but still, feel unsuccessful, and you can be the poorest man in the world, but still, feel extremely successful.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be...

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.

If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.

Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at all, or as little as possible.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love.

Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause.

It is a crushing moment when you realize that your life has either been a series of huge mistakes, or worse; it hasn’t.

You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Life is too short to repeat your mistakes, make new ones..!!

Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we

Nothing succeeds like failure.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!

If you answer fire with fire, only the fire will be the winner.Si al fuego se le contesta con fuego, sólo el fuego vencerá. #quote

I think and think for months for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Experience gives the greatest lessons of life.

We learn from education, experience and people.

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

The only mistake you can make is not asking for help.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Failure is an event never a person.

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Is it ghosts that truly haunt us, or the memory of our own mistakes that we wish we could undo?

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

Just don't be afraid of your mistakes because those mistakes can be the best way how to learn to do it right.

Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

We are disposable tonight. We are regrettable tonight. We can’t touch one another without the world imploding, tonight.

Yes I value strong friendships on a very deep level, I value these connections because time and time again i will go through heartbreak, I will forget my self worth, I will make mistakes and my world will feel broken beyond repair and to have these special people in your life that will be there to help you pick up the pieces and remind you what makes you special and worth being alive is the most amazing feeling in the world and I would never trade that for anything.

I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math test. Too bad I drew my mistakes in ink.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

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.

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

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

Double one mistake?Seriously?Sounds like something is going on...!

There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.

I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!

You must accept that you might fail then if you do your best and still don't win at least you can be satisfied that you've tried.

Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.

We made too many wrong mistakes.