Quotes on Making Mistakes

Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

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

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.

We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.