Mistake Quotes

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

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.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

But make no mistake: the weeds will win: nature bats last.

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

Mistakes are the doorway to discovery.

Learn from other people's mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

A game is always won through a mistake.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed

One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

I have made a lot of career mistakes, a lot and I have made a lot of personal ones too!

I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Delay is preferable to error.

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.