Mistakes Quotes
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"We learn from failure, not from success!"
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."
"It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on."
"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."
"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!"
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
"Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us, and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love."
"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."
"In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk."
"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."
"One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life."
"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF."
"What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made."
"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."
"True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past."
"I’m not going to lecture you on the error of your ways. Not until you fetch me a podium and a microphone. I’ll also need a screen, a projector, and a laser pointer."
"If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul."
"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."
"And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag."
"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."
"Learn from your history, but don’t live in it."
"You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible."
"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."
"Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons."
"What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation."
"You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you"
"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."
"And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again."
"... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection."
"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."
"The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it."
"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."
"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."
"Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher."
"The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence."
"Oh no,"I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no"is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to."
"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time."
"Future is one of the wildest experiences that you will ever have."
"Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG"
"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
"Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el"
"Quotes are made we to think, we have made a mistake so quotes will put us in the right way? (But can we understand them - is the best question)"
"Guilt can be a good thing. It's the soul's call to action. The indication that... something is wrong. The only way... to rid your heart of it... is to correct your mistakes and keep going... until amends are made."
"I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away."
"Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are."
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