Susan Rice Quotes

I made the wrong mistakes

I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

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'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

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.

You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

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.'

I've made plenty of mistakes, and I'm sure I'll make more.

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.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

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

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.

Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

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.

Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

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.