Mistake Quotes

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

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

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

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.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

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

You have to own your mistakes, otherwise your mistakes own you

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

One mistake does not define you.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

Of course, I have made mistakes . . . just as every grower does. However, I never really think of them as mistakes!

I don't make the mistake of thinking it's a major musical event. I love the Eurovision Song Contest and it will continue long after I'm gone. Just please don't ask me to take it seriously.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.