Mistake Quotes

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what mistakes may have been made.

I've made so many mistakes and I always thought I'd have time to correct them!

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.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

For any business, large or small, not to have an e-commerce strategy is a big mistake.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

There is Someone dancing with you, and you are not afraid of making mistakes.

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

Every person on earth learns it’s lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

Even if you make a mistake, you can go back and do the right thing.

When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.

I made two mistakes at the beginning of the season. But I saw Manuel Almunia making mistakes as well, so sometimes you don't know what the thoughts of the coach are.'

If you aren't making any mistakes, you aren't innovating. If you're making the same mistakes, you aren't learning.

You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

Part of being young is making mistakes.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

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

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

I do. You know, I made a mistake using a private e- mail.