Mistake Quotes

Even those who make mistakes, we must try to help them. But we can only help them if they are ready to be helped.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

My philosophy is that it's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake.

Correct your mistake as soon as you have found it.

It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.