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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
Sep 17, 2025
I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.
I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.
I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.
It wasn't the best choice. I made a mistake. It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed. And as I have said and as now has come out, my predecessors did the same thing and many other people in the government.
There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.
The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?
We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
I do. You know, I made a mistake using a private e- mail.
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.
In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.
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.
I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.
I made mistakes, I made some bread. I even made a way for them to get ahead.
Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.
It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.
I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.
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.
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.
If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.
I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I won’t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They haven’t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
I made mistakes. My supporters and I failed to prevent a main like [Mikhail] Saakashvili from acquiring absolute power. I should have criticized him earlier on.
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.