Mistakes Were Made Quotes

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

We regret mistakes were made.

Mistakes were made. Others were blamed.

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.

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

It’s not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It’s about who learned from it.

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.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

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

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

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.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

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.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.