Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they’re in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I’m certainly that and I’ve made a lot of mistakes. – Jeffrey Archer
I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied. – Ken Livingstone
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn’t he? He just got everything right really. – Janet Suzman
When I left HEEP I didn’t know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn’t want to repeat my mistakes! – Ken Hensley
Talking through troubles, staying calm in the face of adversity, that’s what my father taught me. It’s an invaluable lesson because there’s no shortage of adversity and mistakes to be dealt with. – Kevin Frazier
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren’t making some mistakes, you aren’t taking enough chances. – John Sculley
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes. – Mel Brooks
A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity. – Johanna Siguroardottir
I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys. – Mads Mikkelsen
I’ve made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn’t smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it’s going to be different the next time, and it’s not, as it turns out. – Jim Pattison
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. – James Anthony Froude
Sometimes it’s difficult to accept, to recognise one’s own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that. – Mikhail Gorbachev
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. – Lucy Maud Montgomery
Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can’t make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence. – Jay Rockefeller
You will learn more from your failures than your successes – so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you’re never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow. – Lynda Resnick
Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you’ve made and not something you’ve made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes. – Jennifer Lynch
I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You grow up by making mistakes. I’ve made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don’t mind. – Joely Richardson