Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

I haven't always made the right decisions.

Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

I've made some bad mistakes in life.

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

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

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.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Too many times I’ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.