1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

Your mistakes only define the rest of your life if you let them. Don’t let them.

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.

When we are young, Angela, we may fall victim to the misconception that time will heal all wounds and that eventually everything will shake itself out. But as we get older, we learn this sad truth: some things can never be fixed. Some mistakes can never be put right - not by the passage of time, and not by our most fervent wishes, either. In my experience, this is the hardest lesson of them all.

I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.