1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

Addy gives me hope, because even though her life fell apart when Simon’s blog revealed her worst mistake, she put things back together–better than before. She’s stronger, happier, and much closer to her sister. Addy is the queen of second chances, and right now I really need the reminder that those exist.

That's the truth about making mistakes, about making wrong choices. You live with them, and if you're lucky you get enough perspective to see where you went astray. You figure out what you can do to repair the damage, and you figure out how to do better going forward.

Outside her breath rises in a fine mist and the snow keeps falling, like a ceaseless repetition of the same infinitesimally small mistake.

It's dangerous to mistake our wishes for God's will.

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?' Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?

If you could be a person who made no mistakes, had no failures and had no disappointments, you would not be a human, you would be a machine.

I must fight against the regret that would see me defeated. I cannot change what has happened, but it needn’t separate me from a happy future.

When you remember your own cross experience, you are not so quick to put down or talk about others.

I have learned, painfully, over the years that the things I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.