Mistake Quotes

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

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

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.

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

There is no learning without mistakes

If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

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

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

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

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.

Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

Make glorious and fantastic 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.

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.

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

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

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.

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.

Making mistakes is a way of taking action.

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

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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

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].

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

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

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

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!'

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

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

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