Pastoral Resources

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Every human being makes mistakes.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.