Mistake Quotes

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them.

You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.

Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.