Mistake Quotes
A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.
If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.
Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.
It's hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just were not documented the way they are now.
I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
He that seeks perfection upon earth leaves nothing new for the saints to find in heaven; for whilst men teach, there will be mistakes in divinity, and as long as no other govern, errors in the State.
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
There is only one point of view, that is your point of view. You are making a mistake if you see the point of view of people. There is only one and that is your livelihood.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.
The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.