Top 100 Great Mistakes Quotes
#1. The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to death in the streets of Iran will go down as one of the great mistakes of the 21st Century.
John McCain
#3. In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
John Ruskin
#4. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.
Kevin Allen
#5. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.
Neil Gaiman
#7. If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller
#8. Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
Benjamin Jowett
#10. It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
Lewis Carroll
#11. All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems.
Jose Saramago
#12. I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Henry Rollins
#13. One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Milton Friedman
#14. What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.
Florence Nightingale
#16. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni
#17. Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
Abraham Myerson
#18. Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods
When great Jove nods;
But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes
In missing the hour when great Jove wakes.
Rudyard Kipling
#19. Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.
Mike Michalowicz
#20. But you must remember that while you can certainly learn from the successes of great men, you can learn even more from their failures and mistakes.
Amish Tripathi
#22. Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.
William F. Schulz
#23. I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.
John Salmons
#24. Although kids are born with great courage to take control of their own lives and make decisions, they have little experience on which to base their decisions, so they often make poor choices. But they can learn from those mistakes, provided parents don't get too involved.
Foster W. Cline
#25. The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yangming
#27. You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. Even though Sachin is great, I have always found Rahul more solid and hard to get out. He has a solid defense and plays less shots than others. When a batsman plays less shots then it is tough to get him as he makes less mistakes.
Shoaib Akhtar
#29. I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
Alexander Payne
#30. 80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.
Roger Black
#31. Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see China perish from famine rather than readjust his own vision or recognize his mistakes.
Simon Leys
#32. All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.
Robin Williams
#34. Let us march past the flag of the past, saluting our achievements', pondering over our mistakes and thinking of the lessons for the way forward as we march forward to a great tomorrow
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#35. Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#36. The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in the present.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. After you have done a great thing for a great glory, sit and think and understand the journey thereon, for a little mistake can erase a great glory!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.
Auliq Ice
#39. There are great lessons to be learn't in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.
Zach Braff
#41. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Criss Jami
#42. A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Danny Meyer
#43. I suspect I said nothing because I was doing what I have done most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves. I do this, I think, because it could be me a great deal of the time.
Elizabeth Strout
#44. I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
Jed S. Rakoff
#45. Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.
Max Martini
#46. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
John Spence
#47. My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk
#48. Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.
Susan Polis Schutz
#49. Rather than always impose your will,
allow men to learn from their mistakes.
Great failures make great teachers;
success enables one to forget some things
a failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
Alice Walker
#51. One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say "I am right, but I may be wrong". Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes
Mark Zuckerberg
#53. It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.
Natsuki Takaya
#55. All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
#56. There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.
Thomas A. Edison
#57. Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something
Mary Pickford
#58. One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.
Peter Hook
#59. I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.
Priyanka Chopra
#60. I have this theory that I hold on to, the theory that everything great in art and in life in general is jazz. It's just like all these things that just kind of seem to fall into place. You know, like mistakes that somehow turn into something beautiful.
Jerrod Carmichael
#61. Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#62. All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.
Sandra Newman
#63. That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!
Vincent Van Gogh
#64. A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.
Raul Hilberg
#65. He built the Empire, yet he was also the principal in its destruction. A great man, in so many ways, but great men have great faults ... One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once ... Unless there are no other choices.
Joe Abercrombie
#66. Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.
L.M. Montgomery
#67. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#68. There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
Dambisa Moyo
#69. The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
Bertrand Russell
#70. Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
Holly Near
#71. It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
Ani DiFranco
#72. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#73. I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something
and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and ... they come back on television, those movies ... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!
Lauren Bacall
#74. The best defense is great offense ... We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Wayde Goodall
#75. Being willing to forgive is not the same as being weak. Indeed, it takes a great deal of strength to accept someone else's acknowledgment of their mistakes.
Victoria Alexander
#76. There is no more time for us left to revive our great country. No more time to repeat our mistakes of the past. Washington needs a complete turnaround, and Donald Trump is the agent of change, and he will be the leader of the change we need.
Rudy Giuliani
#77. Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.
Cecelie Berry
#78. I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.
Lana Del Rey
#79. Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce in
redirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.
Kunle Olusegun-Emmanuel
#80. No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. To be a great man think like them and behave like them but do not repeat their mistakes
Mohammed Sekouty
#82. Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
#83. Serving and helping are great things, but we can go too far. Managers should not adopt poor performers. Colleagues should not cover for each other's mistakes. Parents should not enable their children.
John G. Miller
#84. True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
Seth Brown
#85. Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.
Brandi Chastain
#86. Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#87. If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
Leon Trotsky
#88. I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
Shelby Foote
#89. Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.
Robert Kiyosaki
#90. If you want to understand why you are here on earth, you must first examine who you are on the inside. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes. Everything you need to be great is already inside of you.
Detavio Samuels
#92. You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.
Jason Katims
#93. One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.
Robert Kiyosaki
#94. To be sure, the Bishop was a little theatrical in his humility, as he had been in his grandeur; but that was his way, Auclair reflected, and, after all, nobody can help his way. If a man admits his mistakes, that is a great deal ...
Willa Cather
#95. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.
Dan Harmon
#96. To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
Green Day
#97. Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes ... It is necessary to make mistakes.
The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.
Mao Zedong
#98. In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein
Lucas Carlson
#99. I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.
Sugar Ray Leonard
