People Make Mistakes Quotes:

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, People Make Mistakes, Biggest Mistake

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Inspirational Achievement, Student Achievement

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

- Mary Pickford

source: "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

topic: Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Inspirational Perseverance

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

- Ingvar Kamprad

source: "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

topic: Mistake, People Make Mistakes, Financial Investment, Good Night Sleep, Good Sleep

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, Strong, Mistake, I Am Strong, Strong Enough

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

- David D. Burns

topic: Mistake, Acceptance, People, People Make Mistakes, Great Mistakes

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

- Jack Welch

topic: Teacher, Mistake, Failure, Young Entrepreneurs, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

- Isabel Gillies

topic: Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt, Marriage Is Hard, Love Winning

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.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Mistake, Warrior, My Mistakes, Strategic

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

- Brandon Mull

source: Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

topic: Leadership, Real, Mistake, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Mistakes And Learning

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.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Inspirational, Life, Death, My Mistakes, Never Regret

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.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake, Management Motivation, Managing People

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

- Ross Perot

topic: Mistake, Moving, Creativity, People Make Mistakes, Great Mistakes

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

- Adam Osborne

topic: Mistake, Technology, Thinking, People Make Mistakes

All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking ***** in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.215, The New Press

topic: Mistake, Marijuana, Law, Speed Limits, Living Room

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Mistake, People, Forgiving, Asking For Forgiveness, People Make Mistakes

People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying Bernie Sanders did it for any kind of financial advantage. What we've got to do as Democrats - what we've got to do as Democrats is to be united to actually solve these problems. And what I believe is that I have a better track record and a better opportunity to actually get that job done.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.washingtonpost.com

topic: Jobs, Mistake, Believe, People Make Mistakes

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Mistake, Land, People, People Make Mistakes

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

- Ashton Kutcher

topic: Mistake, Judging People, Likes, People Make Mistakes

‎It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

- Po Bronson

source: "What Should I Do With My Life?". Book by Po Bronson, February 28, 2013.

topic: Mistake, People, Lessons, People Make Mistakes

Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

- Lance Henriksen

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Mistake, Play, People, People Make Mistakes

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

- Keith Rabois

source: "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

topic: Mistake, People, Delegates, People Make Mistakes

Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Mother, Father, Mistake, People Make Mistakes, Father Mother

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

- Julie Klassen

topic: Father, Mistake, Reality, People Make Mistakes

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

- Pete Carroll

topic: Mistake, People, Care, Patience And Love, People Make Mistakes

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

- Libba Bray

topic: Sorry, Mistake, People, People Make Mistakes, Wrong Actions

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

- James Hilton

source: James Hilton (1941). “Three Famous Novels: Lost Horizon, Good-bye, Mr. Chips [and] Random Harvest”

topic: Mistake, Believe, People, People Make Mistakes

I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.

- Martina Hingis

topic: Mistake, Smart, People, People Make Mistakes

Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.

- Sarah Dunn

topic: Mistake, Years, Perfection, People Make Mistakes

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

- Katherine Heigl

source: "The Girl of Summer '07". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2007.

topic: Mistake, Believe, Mean, People Make Mistakes

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

- Robert I. Sutton

topic: Mistake, Character, Organization, People Make Mistakes