Thomas Paine Quotes

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

We all make mistakes. I make them all the time.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

God sent us here to make mistakes

I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Even a president makes mistakes.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don't say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.