Mistake Quotes

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

When we have money, we start making mistakes.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.

Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a mistake.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes.

Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

I've made some mistakes before.

A mistake is just a temporary pause in your plan.

I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.