Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard Baruch

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've made mistakes, and I know why I made them, but I made that choice. Nobody's ever made a choice for me.
Sandra Bullock

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Al Gore

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
John McEnroe

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
John C. Calhoun

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
Jack Abramoff