135 Quotes About Mistakes

We all make mistakes—it's an inevitable part of the human experience. Whether we stumble in our personal lives, careers, or creative endeavors, each mistake offers a unique opportunity for growth, learning, and self-improvement. In this collection, we’ve gathered the top 135 quotes about mistakes from renowned thinkers, authors, and leaders. These quotes provide not just solace and understanding, but also inspire resilience and a positive outlook on the path to success. So, take a moment to explore these words of wisdom; you might find just the right perspective to turn your slip-ups into stepping stones.

1. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” - L.M. Montgomery

3. “We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.” - John Irving

4. “Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” - Al Franken

5. “We learn from failure, not from success!” - Bram Stoker

6. “The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.” - Andy Rooney

7. “There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.” - Charles Baxter

8. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” - Elbert Hubbard

9. “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” - L.M. Montgomery

10. “Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts” - Jim Morrison

11. “In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.” - Anonymouse

12. “I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.” - J.K. Rowling

13. “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

14. “We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.” - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

15. “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” - Paulo Coelho

16. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” - William Jordan

17. “I`ve got a black woolen hat and it`s got Pervert written across the front of it. It`s the name of the clothing label. And I was with my wife and my baby at the supermarket and I didn`t think. I just put my hat on Clara`s head, because it was cold. And the looks. I couldn`t figure out why I was getting death looks. And then I realized my 10-month old baby`s wearing a hat with the word Pervert written on it and these people were like, `There`s Satan! There`s Satan out with his kid!` And then I made a point of her wearing it every time we went there.” - Ewan McGregor

18. “Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.” - Joan Collins

19. “In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.” - Vic Johnson

20. “... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.” - Gretchen Rubin

21. “Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” - Steve Maraboli

22. “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.” - Julianna Baggott

24. “I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.” - Hugh Prather

25. “To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.” - Walt Disney

26. “You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” - Ray Bradbury

27. “In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” - Robert T. Kiyosaki

28. “The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.” - Kimon Nicolaides

29. “The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us. What do they care what might have happened in the past? They are accompanying us, and are happy with that; can you see them shine? The stars are twinkling in the sky; would they do that if the past mattered? Wouldn't there be a huge storm if God wanted to punish us? We are alone, you and I, with no past, no memories, no guilt, nothing that can stand in the way of... our love.” - Ildefonso Falcones

30. “Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.” - Brock Clarke

31. “Remember, if you're heading in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!” - Allison Gappa Bottke

32. “Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.” - Suzanne Harper

33. “He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?” - Jonathan Safran Foer

34. “A clever man commits no minor blunders.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35. “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.” - Louis Sachar

36. “We all make mistakes but one has to move on.” - Jeffrey Archer

37. “We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.” - Sara Poole

38. “one who makes no mistakes makes nothing” - Giacomo Casanova

39. “I shake my head. "Remember, Mother. There are no mistakes." She smiles through her tears, leaning in to kiss my cheek "No mistakes, my angel.” - Michelle Zink

40. “Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.” - Marcia Lynn McClure

41. “It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.” - W. Somerset Maugham

42. “Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.” - Jean-Paul Sartre

43. “What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.” - Steve Maraboli

44. “It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.” - Paulo Coelho

45. “After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.” - Lisi Harrison

46. “One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.” - Joyce Meyer

47. “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.” - Norton Juster

48. “Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” - Phyllis Theroux

49. “Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.” - Weston H. Agor

50. “Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.” - Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton

51. “And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.” - Sarah Palin

52. “And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” - Kurt Vonnegut

53. “I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.” - Jean Kerr

54. “If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” - John Kenneth Galbraith

55. “Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.'Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline.'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.''Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.” - Julie Anne Long

56. “Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”“Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”“I —”“You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”“Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant tohurt you.”Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —”“You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing thepanic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —”“Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “Andwhose fault is that?” - Cassandra Clare

57. “The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.” - Teresa R. Funke

58. “Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....” - Edith Wharton

59. “What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.” - Alice Bag

60. “Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.” - Denis Waitley

61. “Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.” - Elizabeth Peters

62. “The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday and wrong the day beforeAnd each mistake leads back to something worseAnd every nuance of your hypocrisyTowards yourself, and every excuseStands solidly on the perspective linesAnd there is perfect visibility.What an enlightenment. The colonnadeRolls past on either side. You needn't move.The statues of your errors brush your sleeve.You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed.And this dismay at this, this big mistakeIs made worse by the sight of all those whoKnew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis break.Why didn't they say? Oh, but they did indeed — Said with a murmur when the time was wrongOr by a mild refusal to assentOr told you plainly but you would not heed.Yes, you can hear them now. It hurts. It's worseThan any sneer from any enemy.Take this dismay. Lay claim to this mistake.Look straight along the lines of this reverse.” - James Fenton

63. “Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.” - Garth Stein

64. “Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.” - Stephanie Perkins

65. “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” - Werner Heisenberg

66. “Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.” - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

67. “It's shocking the things we call love.” - Deb Caletti

68. “From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.” - Criss Jami

69. “If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.” - Chuck Palahniuk

70. “Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.” - Sarah Jessica Parker

71. “Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.” - Linda Berdoll

72. “The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.” - Nalini Singh

73. “I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.” - Bob Schieffer

74. “Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.” - James Alan Gardner

75. “You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.” - Anais Nin

76. “...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.” - Orson Scott Card

77. “Survivors lived with their mistakes.” - Nora Roberts

78. “I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a mistake never made any discovery” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

79. “I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms.I wanted to, but I did not!” - Faraaz Kazi

80. “There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.” - Jennifer E. Smith

81. “Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.” - Katherine Paterson

82. “We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.” - Deb Caletti

83. “Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.” - Steve Maraboli

84. “Our lives are businesses that are sometimes run by idiots.” - Patrick Reinken

85. “The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.” - Keith Cooper

86. “Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.” - Jojo Moyes

87. “There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it.” - Benjamin Bayani

88. “Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.” - Shelby Foote

89. “There isn’t a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there’s no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.It’s no good getting worked up about stuff – it’s better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on.” - jay woodman

90. “After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.” - Gwen Stefani

91. “There’s a difference between a mistake and a regret. Everything up to this moment has made this moment. If you can change a mistake, then go out and do what you can to change it. If you can’t change it, there’s no use regretting it because it will just make you miserable. Live right now, even if that involves dealing with the consequences of your actions. Time travel always ends badly.” - Rebecca McKinsey

92. “I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.” - A Gentlemen

93. “Every second a seeker can start over,For his life's mistakesAre initial draftsAnd not the final version.” - Sri Chinmoy

94. “You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice.” - Steven Denn

95. “You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you” - Maxwell Maltz

96. “Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find we are responsible for the how & the what. As unpleasant as it is when it happens, one cannot help but appreciate these times for what you learn serves as a beacon. Of course this is only half the battle. Which means you're already half way there.” - Colleen Truscott Fry

97. “If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.” - Randy Alcorn

98. “I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.” - richard wright

99. “A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility” - Mohamed Mohamed Adel

100. “The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes.” - Rutledge Etheridge

101. “You're the same as you were yesterday and the day before. Nothing has changed. Not really. Forget what troubles you. Regret nothing, but learn from any mistakes you make. Tomorrow will be a brighter day, I promise.” - Morgan Rhodes

102. “We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.” - Nicholas Sparks

103. “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 on, pet.” - Lauren Myracle

104. “There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.” - Criss Jami

105. “if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth. ” - Gerald Hausman

106. “You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.” - Anthony Liccione

107. “It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.” - Freya North

108. “You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. “And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.” - Anna Funder

109. “No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

110. “Junko: That sort of thing happens all the time. You get drunk on your own "correctness," and the more stubborn you get, the further happiness flies away from you. It's a bitter pill to swallow.Madoka: I wonder if there's any way I can help...Junko: Even good advice from others won't bring any clear solutions to someone in that frame of mind. ...Even so, you want to find a solution? Then go ahead and screw up. If she's being too correct, then somebody should make mistakes for her.Madoka: I should screw up...?Junko: Yep! Tell a really bad lie. Run away in the face of something scary. She may not understand what you're trying to do at first, but there are times when you realize in hindsight that a mistake was the right thing to do... During those times when you're just stuck for an answer, making a mistake is one method of unsticking yourself. Madoka, you've grown up to be a good kid. You don't tell lies, and you don't do bad things. You're a girl who works hard at what she thinks is right. You get an "A" as a child. So before you become an adult, you have to start practicing falling down. You see, we adults have our pride and responsibilities, so it becomes harder and harder to make mistakes.” - Magica Quartet

111. “Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.” - Criss Jami

112. “Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.” - Tim Harford

113. “Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway to success.” - David W. Jones

114. “Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.” - Claire Cook

115. “I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.” - Shelby Foote

116. “Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.” - Nicole Guillaume

117. “Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.” - Tahereh Mafi

118. “These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.” - Mother Teresa

119. “How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” - Ray Bradbury

120. “It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.” - John C. Maxwell

121. “I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.” - Belinda Jeffrey

122. “People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.” - Norman Vincent Peale

123. “If people are not making mistakes, they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice, they are not learning new things!” - Walter C. Wright Jr.

124. “I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.” - Agatha Christie

125. “Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.” - Alexandra Potter

126. “The only mistake you can make is not asking for help.” - Sandeep Jauhar

127. “Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

128. “It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.” - Roger Von Oech

129. “The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make” - Ollie Slaney

130. “Failure is our greatest teacherBlame blinds us to her lessons” - Rick Julian

131. “No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.” - Shannon L. Alder

132. “Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.” - jay woodman

133. “The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.” - Shannon L. Alder

134. “Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.” - Dennis E. Adonis

135. “Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.” - Dennis E. Adonis