Mistakes Quotes (page 34)

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• life
• mistake
• thinking

That is my principle objection to life, I think. It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes. Kurt Vonnegut

• society
• humanity
• mistake

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain. Margaret Atwood

• memories
• regret
• mistake

Regrets and mistakes they're memories made. Adele

• learning
• mistake
• people

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately. Stephen Covey

• mistake
• fear
• fearful

Do not fear mistakes. Benjamin Franklin

• love
• mistake
• lovely

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake. Paulo Coelho

• help
• manners
• helpful

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. Mark Twain

• mistake
• ignorance
• ignoring

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes. Harry S. Truman

• mistake
• make no mistake
• those

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes. David McCullough

• lifetime
• lesson
• mistake

The karmic philosophy appeals to me on a metaphorical level because even in ones lifetime it's obvious how often we must repeat our same mistakes, banging our heads against the same ole addictions and compulsions, generating the same old miserable and often catastrophic consequences, until we can finally stop and fix it. This is the supreme lesson of karma ( and also of western psychology, by the way)- take care of the problem now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you... Elizabeth Gilbert

• look
• judgemental
• feeling

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. Jeanette Winterson

• simple
• mistake
• used

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. Woody Allen

• hand
• opportunity
• mistake

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities. Henry James

• mistake
• crush
• personality

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• time
• mistake
• destiny

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Winston Churchill