We all make mistakes but one has to move on. ~By Jeffrey Archer ~
I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made. ~By James Hillman ~
The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices. ~By Crystal Chappell ~
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. ~By Mickey Rivers ~
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. ~By Clifton Fadiman ~
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. ~By Nikki Giovanni ~
I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society. ~By Rocco Buttiglione ~
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ~By Dale Carnegie ~
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ~By Les Brown ~
In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium. ~By Bode Miller ~
We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. ~By Fred Thompson ~
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. ~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ~By Carl Jung ~
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. ~By Steve Irwin ~
In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. ~By Charles Schumer ~
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. ~By John Sculley ~
If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors. ~By John Frankenheimer ~
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. ~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do. ~By Sheryl Crow ~
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. ~By Mel Brooks ~
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. ~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. ~By Virginia Satir ~
A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect. ~By Barry Levinson ~
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ~By Camillo di Cavour ~
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. ~By Peter Ustinov ~
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. ~By Benjamin Jowett ~
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. ~By Robert Fripp ~
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired. ~By Lou Holtz ~
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ~By Denis Waitley ~
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. ~By Ethel Merman ~
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner. ~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that. ~By William Green ~
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. ~By Maxwell Maltz ~
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 ones. ~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ~By James Anthony Froude ~
You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. ~By Cynthia Weil ~
I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong. ~By Chris Bell ~
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. ~By John Jay Hooker ~
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. ~By Bill Watterson ~
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. ~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. ~By Carly Fiorina ~
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does. ~By Jim Jarmusch ~
I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive! ~By Kim Kardashian ~
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ~By William Arthur Ward ~
Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past. ~By Robert Matsui ~
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways. ~By Jennifer Capriati ~
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ~By Galen Rowell ~
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ~By Bono ~
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. ~By John Clayton ~
Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes. ~By Scott Caan ~
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was. ~By Bill Murray ~
It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes. ~By Linda Evans ~
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. ~By Larry Niven ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. ~By Carl Levin ~
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. ~By Richard Bach ~
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. ~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. ~By Bill Cosby ~
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. ~By Sivananda ~
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed. ~By Boris Yeltsin ~
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. ~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes. ~By Bo Bennett ~
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes." ~By Steven Wright ~
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. ~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. ~By Red Skelton ~
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically. ~By Pete Sampras ~
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. ~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one. ~By James Gordon Bennett ~
When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this. ~By Holly Near ~
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. ~By Billy Joel ~
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ~By Holly Near ~
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen. ~By William Pollard ~
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. ~By Don Marquis ~
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. ~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. ~By Salvador Dali ~
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ~By Philip Knight ~
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. ~By Edward de Bono ~
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be. ~By Gene Tierney ~
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~By Sophia Loren ~
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. ~By Susan Blackmore ~
I'm not a God, I make mistakes. ~By Boris Becker ~
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot. ~By Jeffrey Archer ~
You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. ~By Joely Richardson ~
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ~By Mako ~
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. ~By Nigel Mansell ~
We're kind of defined by our mistakes. ~By Tommy Shaw ~
If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. ~By Coleman Hawkins ~
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. ~By Angelina Jolie ~
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ~By Romain Rolland ~
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes. ~By Desi Arnaz ~
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes. ~By Sam Sheppard ~
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~By Oscar Wilde ~
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~By James Joyce ~
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ~By James Anthony Froude ~
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