Norton Juster Quotes

All this has been my fault.

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

Error is always talkative.

Only the mistakes were mine.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

I'm paying for a mistake I made

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

Everybody in life says things at times that they regret.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

Me personally, I know I've made mistakes.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

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

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

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

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

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.

We regret mistakes were made.