Mistakes Quotes

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

You learn from your mistakes.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Life is full of horrible mistakes.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.