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I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.
Sep 17, 2025
I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!
I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
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.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.