“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
“As much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”— Emma Watson, marieclaire.co.uk
“A man makes mistakes, he gets caught up in things, he is sometimes a sheep, then he learns by experience and becomes a lion.”— Louis de Bernieres, amazon.com
“A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance a…”— C. Joybell C., motivationgrid.com
“the sunset whispers secrets of love. of love and loss. of love and loss and pain and truth and all the gorgeous moments that we can never truly grasp until they're gone. this is it. it's this, here, where you are. it's not outside of the edges that color your beating heart; its within. so... stop ru…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“If you want to avoid repeating a mistake, spend some time studying it. Set any negative feelings you might have aside, acknowledge the factors that led up to your misstep, and learn from it.”— Amy Morin, amazon.com
“You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“We want to hear, we long to hear, ‘I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.’ Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as ‘I…”— Carol Tavris, goodreads.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
“There was a mistake made on the day I was born, when I come to think of it.”— William Boyd, amazon.com
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“A model might sometimes help us to avoid repeating the stupid mistakes that others have made, but, more often than not, it becomes a prison that makes us repeat what everyone else has always done.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“We’re told every day from an early age that moderation is key. Count your calories, wait a while before you tell someone you love them, and remember that balance is the path to happiness. While all of those are great in theory, does a lesson taught from someone else’s mistakes resonate just as deepl…”— Tyler Oakley, amazon.com
“So began the first mistake of my life. I would fail not because I did not plan, but because my planning was willful delusion, a failure to see what I should see.”— Alex R. Jones, narrativemagazine.com