228 quotes found
“Survivors lived with their mistakes.”
“It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.”
“The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.”
“Wise is the one who learns from anothers 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.”
“Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radica...”
“The world needs people who have survived mistakes, tragedies, and trials to help the rest of us through. Where would we be if Victor Frankl had never experienced what he did during the war? He woul...”
“Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.”
“Van, Van, were only simple, fallible mortals - we arent saints, we arent 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 ...”
“If you live long enough as a parent nowadays, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about along with the ones you do know about all too well. You are somewhat humbled a...”
“You can make a lot of mistakes in just one lifetime. (I'll Be Waiting)”
“Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.”
“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.”
“If you realise and accept your mistakes, faults and wrong doings, it is the exact way to recognising, getting and finding yourself, when it happens, you are a genius”
“If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen.”
“It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn...”
“And I know, too, that recognizing one's mistakes does not erase them.”
“The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!”
“Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause.”
“There is one thing worse than making a thing wrong: doing badly a right thing.”
