Mistakes Quotes - Page 7

In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.

The emotional scars of our mistakes will teach us far more than the joy of our successes

Blaming people for your mistakes is a faster route to the dungeon of uncreativity

When the past comes knocking, don't answer. It has nothing new to tell you.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.

Something, somewhere, somehow went wrong. Someone, somewhere, somehow will be cursing me. Sometimes curse cures.

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

She came and took away all his miseries, his sorrows !!
Then SHe
went and left him restlessly numb. He was her
painkiller. SHe, his anesthetic.

Do you know what it is like,
to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt
you every night,
of all your past mistakes.

Knowing sleep will set it right -
if you were not to wake.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I'm not afraid to make mistakes. I'm afraid of not learning from them.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

The proof of humanity is that sometimes, we all make mistakes.

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love - I scarcely dare say it - but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.