Mistake Quotes

The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins, because doers make mistakes

Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as it goes forward. What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.

I think it's a mistake to say that to be a healthy, well-adjusted person you need a monogamous relationship.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.

Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.

I am not scared of making mistakes.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.

The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he hadnt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because hed thought surely the first must have been a mistake.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.

I now consider the money I put into my pension to have been a mistake.

... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes.

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

I don't want to make the same mistakes of being swept along with things, taking on jobs that I'm not passionate about, that I don't really believe in but that everyone says I should do.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've made a terrible mistake.'

I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.