Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wangari Maathai

If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

Josiah Warren

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Joshua Waitzkin

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Joseph J. Ellis

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Joseph Epstein

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Joss Whedon

I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, 'I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change.' Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so.

Kim Kardashian

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Kim Kardashian

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

Kim Kardashian

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Kevin Keegan

Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.

Kendrick Lamar

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Kelly Reilly

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

Ralph Steadman

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Rain

I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

Radhanath Swami

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

Sean William Scott

I'm still a big kid - I make mistakes all time.

Sean Penn

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

Lily King

It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

Lin Yutang

Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.

Liam Hemsworth

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

Liam Fox

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

Les Miles

I think the good news is that our team understands the positon they're in. If they want to win a division or a conference, they're going to have to fix their mistakes.

Les Brown

Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.

Les Brown

That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.

Les Brown

Give yourself a break. Stop beating yourself up! Everyone makes mistakes, has setbacks and failures. You don't come with a book on how to get it right all the time. You will fail sometimes, not because you planned to, but simply because you're human. Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

Lee Iacocca

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

Lee Iacocca

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

Lee Iacocca

The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

Laurie Garrett

All too many journalists seem to mistake scandal mongering for tenacious investigation, and far too many aspire to make themselves the story.

Larry Brilliant

I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

Lara Logan

Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

Thierry Henry

You learn from your mistakes.

Terry Pratchett

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.