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  • The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)
  • Mistakes were made. Others were blamed.

    Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.143, Macmillan
  • Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

    Mistake   Failure   Math  
    Der Teil und das Ganze ("The Part and the Whole," 1969) ch. 17 (translated by A. J. Pomerans in 1971 as Physics and Beyond)
  • We regret mistakes were made.

  • While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

    Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com
  • There’s no question that mistakes were made and as CEO, I have to accept responsibility for those mistakes. I was focused on lowering costs and making the hospitals more efficient. I could have had more internal and external controls. I learned hard lessons and I’ve taken that lesson and it’s helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

  • The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

    Mistake   People   Done  
    Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.369, Simon and Schuster
  • To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

    Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
  • An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

  • There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

    "The Bridge Across Forever". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.
  • As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)
  • "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

    "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.
  • My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.

    Robert Benchley (1925). “Of All Things”
  • You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

    Mistake   Compass   Made  
    "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.
  • Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  • Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

    Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”
  • Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow
  • How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

  • The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

    "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.
  • Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

    "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
  • Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  • I learned hard lessons, and I've taken that lesson and it's helped me become a better business person and a better leader.

    Taken   Leader   Lessons  
  • A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

    Ulysses (1922)
  • 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 (1997). “Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction”
  • Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it’s what makes being a best friend official.

    Hurt   Mistake   Perfect  
  • Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

    Mistake   Als   Next  
  • It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

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