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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Mistakes'

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Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Len Wein, American Cartoonist (1948-  )
I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.
Anthony Weiner, American Politician (1964-  )
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
Anthony Weiner, American Politician (1964-  )
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
Arabella Weir, British Comedian (1957-  )
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch, American Businessman (1935-  )
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West, American Author (1902-1984)
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)
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.
Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder, American Director (1906-2002)
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams, American Athlete (1918-2002)
When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
Venus Williams, American Athlete (1980-  )
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher (1889-1951)
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf, American Producer (1946-  )
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer (1759-1797)
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood, American Artist (1893-1998)
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden, American Coach (1910-  )
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes."
Steven Wright, American Comedian (1955-  )
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect (1867-1959)
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect (1867-1959)
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman (1931-2007)
 
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