Quotes about Mistake
Why am I here?" You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel
— Victor Hugo
The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution.
— Victor Hugo
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
— Virginia Woolf
Wells Fargo had a glitch - the truth of the matter is they made a business judgement that was wrong. I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong.
— Charlie Munger
I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
— George Clooney
Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.
— Barack Obama
As much as Tim blamed himself during the next morning's postmortem, I recognized it as a systems failure
— Barack Obama
Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The first to fall in any war are forgotten. No love gets lost over one person's reckless mistake. Only after it's a mountain of bodies bagged do we think to raise a flag and call the mistake by a different name, because one downfall times a thousand has got to mean something. It needs its own brand, some point to all the sacrifice. Mom was the unknown soldier.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.
— Stephen Covey