Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Every time someone makes a mistake, and mistakes are made in this business, careers are ruined.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

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

Mistakes can come at any time; the thing is to make sure you don't make too many.

By admitting a mistake, it is easier to get yourself out of a spiral.

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

Knowing my mistakes and being able to go back to fix them - that helps me out a lot.

When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.