#mistakes

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor."

"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF."

"Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it."

"You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am."

"You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection."

"Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own."

"In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons."

"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."

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

"We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices."

"Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts"

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them."

"You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you"

"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."

"Learn from your history, but don’t live in it."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."