Mistake Quotes

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.Dean Acheson

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.Douglas Adams

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.Steve Albini

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.Aldrich Ames

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.Antisthenes

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.Fiona Apple

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.Jeffrey Archer

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.Billie Joe Armstrong

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.Desi Arnaz

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.Kevyn Aucoin

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.Ibrahim Babangida

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.Burt Bacharach

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.Walter Bagehot

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.Kenneth Baker

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.Lester Bangs

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.Amelia Barr

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.Daisy Bates

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

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.Gary Bauer

I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.Ann Beattie

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.Bo Bennett

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.Josh Billings

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.Napoleon Bonaparte

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.Edward de Bono

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.Nelson Boswell

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.Phyllis Bottome

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.Ben Bradlee

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.John Bradshaw

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.T. Berry Brazelton

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.Bertolt Brecht

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.Mel Brooks

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.Les Brown

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.Samuel Butler

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.John C. Calhoun

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.Lydia M. Child

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.Winston Churchill

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.Marcus Tullius Cicero

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.John Churton Collins

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.Charles Caleb Colton

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.Vincent D'Onofrio

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.Salvador Dali

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.Humphry Davy

I was shaped by my mistakes.Janice Dickinson

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.Casper Van Dien

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.Robert Downey, Jr.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Arthur Conan Doyle

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.Bob Dylan

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.George Eliot

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.Joseph J. Ellis

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.Millard Fillmore

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: 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

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.Robert Fripp

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.James Anthony Froude

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.Timothy Geithner

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

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.Katharine Graham

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.Robert Half

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.Coleman Hawkins

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.William Randolph Hearst

Never mistake motion for action.Ernest Hemingway

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.Ken Hill

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.Conrad Hilton

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.Lou Holtz

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.Lauren Hutton

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.Tahar Ben Jelloun

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.Benjamin Jowett

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.Carl Jung

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.Hildegard Knef

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.Stanley Kubrick

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.Lisa Kudrow

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.Ring Lardner

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.James Larkin

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.Bruce Lee

A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.Barry Levinson

We can afford almost any mistake once.Joe E. Lewis

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.Maxwell Maltz

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.W. Somerset Maugham

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.John C. Maxwell

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.Paul J. Meyer

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.Arthur Miller

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.Lucy Maud Montgomery

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.Mary Tyler Moore

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.Akio Morita

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.Edward R. Murrow

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.Holly Near

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.Horatio Nelson

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!Earl Nightingale

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.Sarah Jessica Parker

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.John Powell

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.Herbert V. Prochnow

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.Joely Richardson

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.Mickey Rivers

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.Theodore Roosevelt

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.Jessica Savitch

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.Charles Schumer

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.Ashley Scott

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.Brent Scowcroft

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.Michael Servetus

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

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.Tommy Shaw

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.Bobby Sherman

I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.Michelle Shocked

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.Samuel Smiles

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

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.Thomas Sowell

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.Barbara Stanwyck

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.Arthur Hays Sulzberger

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.Janet Suzman

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.Deborah Tannen

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.Phyllis Theroux

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.Lewis Thomas

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.Norman Thomas

People mistake their limitations for high standards.Jean Toomer

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.Dale Turner

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.Dale Turner

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.Mark Udall

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.Walter Ulbricht

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.Peter Ustinov

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.Jules Verne

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.Claude Vorilhon

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

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.Ian Walker

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.Murray Walker

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.William Arthur Ward

If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.Earl Warren

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.Mercy Otis Warren

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.Sanford I. Weill

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.Sanford I. Weill

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.Len Wein

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.Arabella Weir

So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.Vanna White

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.Maurice Wilkins

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

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

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.Earl Wilson

Never mistake activity for achievement.John Wooden

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.Bob Woodward

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.Frank Lloyd Wright