Sarah Dessen Quotes

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

Nobody seems to think it's a good idea to mention mistakes, but I think it's important to acknowledge the mistakes you've made in life, because it's really through those that you learn things. I've made hundreds.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

I'm a guy that learns from making mistakes. Sometimes that's not the best way to learn, but that's how I learn.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

I was young, and I think your mistakes sort of mold you. It was important for me to make that one. After that, I definitely made it a point to not let others get in the way of what I wanted to do. Whether it's a relationship or your family or friends, the people close to you should encourage you to work towards your dreams. That was an important lesson for me to learn.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.