Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
— Dalai Lama
Cheering My Mistake quotations
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.
My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

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.
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think.
I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself.
I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see
I have no regrets in my life. If not for the mistakes that I made I would not be the man I am today.
I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes.
You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad.
There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.