Mistake Quotes

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes.

‎It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.

I made the mistakes not because I'm tired.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Life would be dull without them.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' they tend to regret it - I'm worse than Mariah Carey, and the hot milk rider is completely non-negotiable.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

Even if you have done no wrong, no mistake in the last 50 years, remember the mistake you did 51 years ago and repent for it and become humble.

If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.

Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

Just live in the moment and not be afraid to try things out and make mistakes.

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.

The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don't regret them.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

Mmm. O positive, my favorite.” “Is it? I thought it was a cabernet sauvignon.” “So it is,” said Adrian, straight-faced. “My mistake.