37 Quotes Anyone Who Is Their Own Worst Critic Would Appreciate

“We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.”

— Jack Thorne, Harry Potter, amazon.com

“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”

— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com

“Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger like when you let down a friend. Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. So…”

— Lucas Scott, amazon.com

“Everyone makes mistakes even the people we love.”

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

“Give yourself the freedom to make mistakes.”

— Alison Malee, amazon.com

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

— Norton Juster, amazon.com

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.”

— Jojo Moyes

“We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I've made a lot of mistakes in my past but if you judge me on the things I did in my past, then you have no reason being in my future.”

— KushAndWizdom, kcorley92.tumblr.com

“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he pro…”

— Shannon Alder, facebook.com

“To all the women lying in bed unable to sleep because of ghosts of past relationships or bad decisions haunting them at night. You are not alone.”

— Samantha King, amazon.com

“Beating yourself up about a mistake you made is only going to make you more inclined to do it again. Just accept that it happened and move on.”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want fear of failure to stop me doing what I really care about.”

— Emma Watson, marieclaire.co.uk

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”

— Gayle Forman, amazon.com

“Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry”

— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com

“You know it’s not about perfection. It’s about just getting on with things, sometimes. Sometimes, you just get credit for getting up and going on with things – you don’t have to do it perfectly.”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t got where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not. Now I want to tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile; that’s w…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't too busy denying them”

— Unknown, bianoti.com

“It's okay to make mistakes if people can't accept that they don't deserve to be around you.”

— Unknown, bianoti.com

“Everyone makes mistakes that doesn't mean you have to pay for them for the rest of your life.”

— Unknown, bianoti.com

“Your mistakes do not define you.”

— Unknown, bianoti.com

“I think the whole point of being with someone is so you can talk to them and let go of everything and even at your worst they still like you and still want to speak to you and care about you.”

— Unknown, pinterest.com

“I know I'm not the only one Who regrets the things they've done Sometimes I just feel it's only me Who can't stand the reflection that they see”

— Adele, youtube.com

“The past will haunt you if you let it.”

— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.”

— Freya North, amazon.com

“Can you forgive me for not trusting you? For not telling you? ... I only feared that you would fail as I had failed. I only dreaded that you would make my mistakes.”

— Steve Kloves, Albus Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, amazon.com