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Your Mistake Quotes

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
- Hank Aaron

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.
- Cassandra Clare

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
- Antisthenes

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
- Fiona Apple

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.
- Lisa Kleypas

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
- Steve Maraboli

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
- Steve Maraboli

Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
- Steve Maraboli

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
- Bernard Baruch

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.
- Glenn Beck

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
- L M Montgomery

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
- Edgar Bergen

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.
- Nicole Blackman

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He wasn't much for erasing anyway. Sometimes your mistakes showed you the really interesting connections between your brain, your hand, and your heart, the ones you might otherwise never know were there. They were important even if you had no idea what they meant.
Like now, for instance. Coming back here might be the biggest mistake he'd ever made. But it might also be the most important thing he'd ever done.
- Poppy Z Brite

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
- Les Brown

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
- Jerry Bruckheimer

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
- John C Calhoun

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?
- Raymond Carver

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
- Julia Child

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.
- Walt Disney Company

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
- Alvin Dark

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
- Richard P Feynman

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.
- Shelby Foote

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
- Maureen Forrester

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
- John Wooden

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.
- Neil Gaiman

Just because you took too much for granted before, doesn't mean you can't learn from your mistakes.
- Gwen Hayes

You learn from your mistakes.
- Thierry Henry

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
- Criss Jami

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.
- Allen Johnson

Don't waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don't let them.
- Joyce Meyer

Clones: Why should you take the blame for your mistakes when there's a genetic replica of yourself that'd make a perfectly good scapegoat?
- Jarod Kintz

At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
- Lindsay Lohan

I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she would not have to undergo them for herself. But, how are our certainties forged, except by the sweat and tears of other people? If your parents don't teach you how to live; you learn it from books; and clever people watch you learn from your mistakes.
- Hilary Mantel

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.
- Scott Mcclellan

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
- Karen E Quinones Miller

Bury your mistakes.
- Rupert Murdoch

When you're young, you make mistakes. The big thing that's different now is that when I was a kid, you could survive your mistakes. We didn't have guns. Today, kids have access to guns. The same kids that would have been in trouble and gotten a stern talking-to are now going to jail for fifteen or twenty years. Instead of bloody noses there are bodies lying in the street with chalk outlines around them. The values are basically the same, but it's easier to mess up.
- Walter Dean Myers

I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that and that was your mistake.
- L J Smith

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
- Tim O Brien

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world
doesn't need any more of that sound.
- Mary Oliver

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The world must always keep hope

in their hearts for a better change.

As long as you have life

You have the hope

to change darken nights

into brighter days.

Learn from your mistakes of yesterday.

Live for your dreams today.

Hope for a brighter tomorrow,

For you and humanity.
- Timothy Pina

You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair...will help all move forward to better, brighter days.
- Timothy Pina

Don't ever let your mistakes hold you back & define your life. It's not what you did yesterday but what you're doing today. Humanity needs diligent workers to help better brighten our world!
- Timothy Pina

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
- Anthony Robbins

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

Your mistake is that you've concluded life is short, so you treat it as if it's precious, like a pretty little princess. Bullshit! Everyone's life is short. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Fuck it. Treat it like a cheap hooker. Ask crazy shit from it, and you'll get more out of life than you could have ever wanted, imagined, or deserved.
- Ty Roth

I want you, Delilah Anne. Never doubt that. I want a life with you. With your voice and your touch and your thoughts and your arguments. I want your grace and your mistakes and your promises and your everything, all twisted up with mine. I want it so bad that I feel like I can't breathe whenever I think about being without you.
- Dee Tenorio

To be noble,...was to account for the life you lived, to always account for your mistakes, and to have dignity and worth.
- Gail Tsukiyama

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
- Tom Verlaine

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
- Venus Williams

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.
- Thomas Wolfe

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