All Quotes By Tag: Mistakes

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”

“Scars are but evidence of life,” Coquette said. “Evidence of choices to be learned from…evidence of wounds…wounds inflicted of mistakes…wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.”

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”

“In order to wash away past mistakes, it is necessary to have both repentance in the ‘relative’ and bliss in the ‘Real’.”

“I don’t know about you but I’ve learned plenty from mistakes and I want to learn from laughing now.”

“How am I still making stupid mistakes in my eighties? Whenever somebody says to me, “Maybe it’ll come with age,” I want to say, ‘I wouldn’t count on it.”

“Remember: Mistake is not for mistake, it is for alteration!”

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”

“Making mistakes is the only way to learn, ye ken? Look at me. I’m the wisest woman in Scotland.”

“To abandon the past is to throw away all of the elements that will build my future. And that creates a landfill I can’t afford to fill.”