MISTAKES QUOTES V

quotations about mistakes

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

ALICE BAG

Violence Girl


You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

GENEEN ROTH

Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

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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.

AL FRANKEN

Oh, the Things I Know


Every step that I take is another mistake to you.

LINKIN PARK

"Numb"


At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

ANGIE THOMAS

The Hate U Give


It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The term of man's life is half wasted, before he has done with his mistakes, and begins to profit by his lessons.

JANE TAYLOR

The Contributions of Q. Q.

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Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every night,
of all your past mistakes.

LANG LEAV

Love & Misadventure


Mistakes are road signs pointing you back to the proper path.

DARIN PENZERA

Heroic Egoism


Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

attributed, "The Living Law", Harper's Weekly, February 26, 1916

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

CHARLES DARWIN

letter to A. Stephen Wilson, March 5, 1879

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When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

KURT VONNEGUT

Player Piano

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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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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.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

LOUIS ARAGON

Paris Peasant

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Mistakes occur through haste, never through doing a thing leisurely.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Those who learn from their mistakes, are achievers and those who keep on crying on their failures, are losers.

SANJEEV KUMAR

31 Distinctive Qualities for Becoming Rich


I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

TONY BENN

Arguments for Socialism

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They say we learn from mistakes,
that's why they mistake me.

LIL WAYNE

"Blunt Blowin", Tha Carter IV