"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

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

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."
— L.M. Montgomery

"Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it."
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
— Rita Mae Brown (Alma Mater)

"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Anne Shirley)"
— L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)

"Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others."
— Brandon Mull (Fablehaven)

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

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"To Err is human, forgive divine."
— Alexander Pope

"When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."
— Paulo Coelho (Brida)

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
— Elbert Hubbard

"I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life."
— Terry Goodkind (Confessor)

"We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward."
— Alison Croggon

"The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
— Andy Rooney

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'

Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.

Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.' "
— Robert Fanney

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. "
— Jim Morrison

"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault."
"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "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 (The Phantom Tollbooth)

"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."
— William Jordan

"There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel."
— Charles Baxter (Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction)

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
— Katherine Graham

"God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi"
— Hideaki Anno (Groundwork of Evangelion)

"Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.'"
— Elizabeth Peters (The Falcon at the Portal)

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

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— Vic Johnson (Day by Day with James Allen)

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
— Malcolm Forbes

"Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition."
— Sharon Kay Penman (The Sunne in Splendour)

"The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age."
— Plato (The Republic and Other Works)

"It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake."
— Michael Chabon

"The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be
able to correct them."
— Kimon Nicolaides

"Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice."
— Julianna Baggott (Girl Talk)

"In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body."
— Bhikkhu Bodhi