You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Maxwell Maltz

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.
Sarah Jessica Parker

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
Leo Burnett

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.
Lewis Grizzard

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Miles Davis

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
Bruce Babbitt

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John Le Carre

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Robert Downey, Jr.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Donald Rumsfeld