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Mistakes Quotes

On mistakes made, owned, and left behind.

This collection focuses on mistakes as part of learning - practicing a new piece and inevitably getting parts of it wrong along the way. Related reading: Better.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a...

Quotes by Thomas Muller

If you make mistakes, it can cost you.

Quotes by Thomas Muller

My stories seem to always in some way explore mistakes and misapprehensions and the possibility of redemption - though that redemption doesn't always occur in expected ways.

Quotes by Therese Fowler

You learn from your mistakes.

Quotes by Thierry Henry

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Quotes by Theodore C. Sorensen

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do...

Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation...

Quotes by Theodor Herzl

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of...

Quotes by Ted Williams

Go out there and let it rip and don't worry about overthinking things and trying to be perfect. Because when you try to be perfect, that's when you make mistakes.

Quotes by Teddy Bridgewater

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Quotes by Ted Engstrom

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Quotes by Taylor Momsen

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

I don't regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.

Quotes by Taapsee Pannu

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

Quotes by T. Berry Brazelton

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

Quotes by T. D. Jakes

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Quotes by Sydney Smith

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger...

Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.

Quotes by Sushmita Sen

We all do make foolish mistakes.

Quotes by Susan Ford

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

Quotes by Susan Blackmore

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "mistakes" quotes reflect on?
They range from a critique of foreign policy decisions to the value of making mistakes while learning a craft, and the idea that owning up to mistakes is part of moving on.
Is there a quote criticizing U.S. foreign policy?
Yes — one speaker shares their own view that a mistake "the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East." This is presented as that speaker's personal opinion.
Is there a quote about learning through practice?
There is. One speaker says, "I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn," adding, "it's important to get on and have another go."
Is there a quote about owning up to mistakes?
Yes — one quote suggests that "Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life." Browse more reflective lines on our Better and Life quotes pages.
Is there a quote criticizing a government's handling of the Iraq war?
Yes. One speaker states their own opinion that "The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq," adding a criticism that "The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes." This is presented strictly as that speaker's own political opinion. For more, see our Always and Good quotes pages.

The recurring idea is that mistakes, once genuinely owned and apologized for, should be allowed to stay buried rather than relitigated forever. See also Good and Life.