Mistakes Quotes

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

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.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well.

You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.