Jesse Livermore Quotes

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

Have I gone too far?

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

I'm paying for a mistake I made

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.