If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Donald Rumsfeld

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.
Mickey Rivers

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

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
Bo Bennett

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono

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

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.
Murray Walker

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

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

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
Charles Caleb Colton

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel

You learn from your mistakes.
Thierry Henry

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
Britney Spears

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

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.
Sophia Bush

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.
Julio Iglesias

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.
Jerry Bruckheimer

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
Billy Joel

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
Joseph J. Ellis