Mistakes Quotes - Page 5

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

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

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth. 

Don’t lose heart. Every disappointment is an awakening.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond once you lost it.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

I made a big mistake, and I didn’t use it to make my life better. I used it to be okay with a life less lived. I used it to be okay with mediocrity and the mundane. And I didn’t make myself any better because of it.And that’s not okay with me.

Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.

Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday and wrong the day beforeAnd each mistake leads back to something worseAnd every nuance of your hypocrisyTowards yourself, and every excuseStands solidly on the perspective linesAnd there is perfect visibility.What an enlightenment. The colonnadeRolls past on either side. You needn't move.The statues of your errors brush your sleeve.You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed.And this dismay at this, this big mistakeIs made worse by the sight of all those whoKnew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis

Do not allow past mistakes to shape your future.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Healthy people can own their mistakes and, over time, move on.

Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define youThey don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you

Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, for recovering from a traumatic situation is all a matter of how we think about what happened. It is not so much about what happened to us as what we make of the circumstance.

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

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

Allow yourself to make mistakes. There will always be times in your life when you fail but you can make that failure into a success by choosing to learn from it. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to succeed. Try again.

The word fate ... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?

Have your one good cry, pick your chin up, smile, and move on to the positive.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.

One mistake cannot justify another.

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about yourmistakes, learn from them.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

I'm no stranger to fucking up.

We are all a whole bunch of accidental products.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.

Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.

Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.

Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it is when it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.