My Mistake Quotes

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up
to them. I also learned to forgive myself and correct my mistakes
- Paulo Coelho

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
- Marcus Aurelius

My mistakes are my life.
- Samuel Beckett

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
- E M Forster

My mistake was in underestimating the emotional force of a song you have already hear a thousand times.
- Augusten Burroughs

Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have- of all my mistakes,that was my biggest.
- Louise Candlish

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.
- John Clayton

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
- Jean Cocteau

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
- Peter Cook

In the spirit of Ethan's neurosis, we made a drywall list of keyboard buttons we would like to see: PLEASE, THANK YOU, FUCK OFF, DIE, OOPS...MY MISTAKE, DO SOMETHING COOL AND SURPRISE ME.
- Douglas Coupland

The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone. Most of all, I have let myself down. I will learn from my mistakes and trust my support team.
- Miley Cyrus

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
- Humphry Davy

I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's always today, Pearl. Don't worry about tomorrow, because it's always today, and every today we have, I will mean it. I will not leave you. Not willingly. Dont't make my mistake. Let me unmake it. Don't throw me away.
- Gail Dayton

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.
- Neil Diamond

I was shaped by my mistakes.
- Janice Dickinson

Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks.
Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood back in Chicago I worshiped him. "You don't want to hear my answer to that.
- Simone Elkeles

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.
- Linda Evans

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
- Sarah Ferguson

I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
- Gayle Forman

I'd forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" seemed too close to home at the mo-ment.
"Culture Club?" Now his mouth curled downward. "And you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.
- Jeaniene Frost

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
- Daisy Fuentes

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.
- Teresa R Funke

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.
- Brian Griese

He stepped forward and took the butterfly hanging around my neck between his two fingers: "This will remind me, both of my mistake and how much I care for you." He took another step closer so we were only inches apart, and his hand moved to the back of my shoulder where Shawn's mark still
scarred my skin. "And I hope this will never heal. It will remind me to never take anything for granted; other people's intentions, your safety, or... you.
- Terra Harmony

You can't imagine how much I regret what happened. For some reason, because
of the type of relationship we had, I thought it was an acceptable training exercise; albeit a little extreme. But I'm not going to ask your forgiveness, I don't want it. I mean to always remember my mistake, so I will never make it again. (Micah to Kaitlyn)
- Terra Harmony

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
- J K Rowling

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
- Jimi Hendrix

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
- Ken Hensley

I was so focused on my mistake that I made another mistake during the correction of the initial mistake.
- Jarod Kintz

I covered up my mistakeswith dirt, like you'd do with any other dead bodies.
- Jarod Kintz

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.
- Richard King

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.
- Barbara Kingsolver

... I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I've ever made.
- Daniele Lanzarotta

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
- Martin Lawrence

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.
- Heath Ledger

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.
- Nastia Liukin

My mistake was in ever opening the books.
- Jack London

I am not a 'wise man,' nor... shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
- Seneca

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's.
I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes.
From now on, I live for me.
- Megan Mccafferty

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
- Ethel Merman

You're not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you're scared silly, and I'm guessing it's because you're afraid of me.
- Stephenie Meyer

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
- Holly Near

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.
- Rafael Palmeiro

It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake.
- S J Parris

Miracles do happen. You just admitted to a mistake. What was your mistake? Not f-cking me sooner?'
'It was my mistaken-' he turned and met her eyes '-thinking we had all the time in the world.
- Tiffany Reisz

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
- Dick Schaap

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
- John Sculley

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.
- Ally Sheedy

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
- Charlie Sheen

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
- Igor Stravinsky

There were a million What Ifs that could have stopped the whole thing. A million things I wished I'd done differently. But in the end, I was left with what actually happened. With my mistakes and his.
- Rachel Vincent

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
- Ben Webster

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -
- August Wilson