1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

Even monkeys fall from trees.

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

In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.