Mistake Quotes

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry.

As a manager, you are important sometimes, and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me 'the special one!'

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

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

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.

You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger.

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.