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. - Stev...

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher) I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake. - Brian Boitano It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do th...

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...

Wise is the one who learns from another's mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. - John Sununu

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake. - Jodi Picoult Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon - Nick Bantock A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. - Christian Nestell Bovee Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake - Lois Mcmaster Bujold No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake - Albert Einstein Do you think we're making a mistake?" snapped the Bishop. "Not at all," said Dom Cristao. "I think we've taken a step toward something tr...

Sometimes, there just isn't the opportunity or willingness to make things better. Sometime you can't simply have another go. You make a choice, and its a bad one, and you're left with it. No amount of trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you, to cut you slack; you made a mistake and you'll have to live with it. - Dan Abnett I think we've made a mistake," he says softly. "We've all started to put down virtues of the other faction in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. - Veronica Roth I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-belie...

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. - Ed Balls You see, you're doing it again. Telling me nothing. (Tory) You know, trust is always a good idea...for someone else. Every time I've ever made the mistake of trusting someone...it was a mistake that I regretted and paid for dearly. I'm really happy that no one has ever hurt you badly. I haven't been so lucky, okay? (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it. - Anna Benson Definitely not," Talon said. "If you screw up like that, you don't get another chance." "But what if he really loves her and it was a mistake?" ...

I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime. - Albert Einstein I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President. - Nelson Mandela I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties. - Patricia Highsmith I m...

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. - Lester Bangs The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll. - Sarah Rees Brennan The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. - Marshall Mcluhan The first mistake in public business is the going into it. - Benjamin Franklin It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake. - Stephen Covey I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. - Henry A Kissinger People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books. But they th...

If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened. - Jodi Picoult One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat. - Ted Allen I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is. - Lisa Kleypas One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves. - Meg Cabot My last conscious thought was of my biggest mistake- not the boy beside me, but the one i could never have. - Jennifer L Armentrout Being a noninvas...

I don't intimidate you at all, do I? (Acheron) Well, when you chased me through Kyrian's house, I did wet my pants a bit. Guess I'm not housebroken after all. My mom will be so disappointed after all she went through to potty train me. But once you let me live...your big mistake...now I know you think I'm too cute and fluffy to kill. (Nick) - Sherrilyn Kenyon At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.) - Lara Biyuts People do it all the time--assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful. - Jennifer Brown I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floo...