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I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.
Sep 26, 2025
The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?
People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying you [Bernie Sanders] did it for any kind of financial advantage.
Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.
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.
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.
It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.
People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying Bernie Sanders did it for any kind of financial advantage. What we've got to do as Democrats - what we've got to do as Democrats is to be united to actually solve these problems. And what I believe is that I have a better track record and a better opportunity to actually get that job done.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.
Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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