Mistake Quotes

Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

God sent us here to make mistakes

You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.

Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.

You make a lot of mistakes. I haven't seen that movie [The Lost World] in 20 years. But if I saw it, I'm sure I could pick out a whole lot of mistakes.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

A mistake a lot of girls make is that they work out but don't eat enough. If you're not eating enough, all the work outs are doing, it's not going to show.

Never mistake movement for action

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

I never make a mistake on the first move!

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

Haste, the great enemy.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Nature compensates for its mistakes.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

The true teacher of love is the heart. The heart is very, very wise. It makes mistakes from time to time, but it has a wisdom all of its own.

Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.

Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

When a lot of people meditate what they do is they're thinking about other people. This is a terrible mistake. If you do this, stop!

What gets frustrating for some people is the fact that you might get very high, but you find yourself pulled down again. There are forces of illusion or maya that cause us to make mistakes.

To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.