Mistake Quotes

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Never mistake motive for action.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation .

Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.

People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.

I'm happy with the way everything turned out. Even the mistakes we've made I wouldn't take back because they ended up yielding something good.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

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

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

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

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.