Richelle Mead Quotes

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.

I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.