228 quotes found
“Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.”
“A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously....”
“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.”
“If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.”
“Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow us to make our own.”
“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.”
“Survivors lived with their mistakes.”
“Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”
“Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -”
“Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of ...”
“About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.”
“The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’t stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but...”
“The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives became—like a long proof in mathematics in which ...”
“Just don't be afraid of your mistakes because those mistakes can be the best way how to learn to do it right.”
“IS LIFE A CHOICE – I say no however when it is necessary I make bold choices may be mistakes no mistake goes waste, every mistake taught me to be more humble sincere and made to rethink not to make...”
“And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.”
“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...”
“People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!”
“Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?”
