Top 64 Greatest Mistake Quotes
#1. That is your greatest mistake. The love you felt for him wasn't love at all - it was obsession. Real love means sacrifice, not selfishness.
Morgan Rhodes
#2. Dieter had a theory that was pure Faust. Thought alone was valueless. You must act for thought to become effective. He used to say that the greatest mistake man ever made was to distinguish between the mind and the body: an order does not exist if it is not obeyed.
John Le Carre
#3. The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.
Nguyen Van Thuan
#4. How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn't want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.
Edward Feser
#5. The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Maxwell Maltz
#6. Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Greer Garson
#7. The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson
#8. Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Chuck Schumer
#10. The greatest mistake we can make is allowing the guilt of what we haven't yet achieved consume us.
Orly Wahba
#11. The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Plato
#12. That I had been shallow, stubborn, and selfish did not alter the gravity and stupidity of what I had done. I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.
Lisa See
#13. By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
Mitch McConnell
#14. The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately!
Plato
#15. The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
Malcolm X
#16. We've built a new Earth. It's not as nice as the old one; it's the greatest mistake humans have ever made, one that we will pay for literally forever.
Bill McKibben
#17. The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
#18. I think that those few words were my greatest mistake.
Anita Brookner
#19. The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.
Anthony Trollope
#20. The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.
Eugene Schwartz
#21. What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?' she asked. 'To believe that your children will be just like you.
Michael Scott
#22. My greatest fear has always been to make a mistake.'
'Perhaps your greatest fear is your greatest mistake.
Nora Roberts
#23. The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
#24. 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.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#25. The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.
Mother Teresa
#26. Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.
David Niven
#27. It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.
Vladimir Lenin
#28. The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
#29. My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country
Salmon P. Chase
#30. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
#31. The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
#32. The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.
John Capozzi
#33. The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.
John C. Maxwell
#34. For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#35. Hopefully God will allow me to turn my biggest mistake into my greatest success.
Robert Bernhardt
#36. Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
Josiah Warren
#37. It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.
John McCain
#38. Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.
Kurt Hanks
#39. Man's greatest excuse to delay the inevitable." "Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?" "If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake." Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me.
Krista Ritchie
#40. An emotional response to a situation is the single greatest barrier to power, a mistake that will cost you a lot more than any temporary satisfaction you might gain by expressing your feelings.
Robert Greene
#41. I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through 'Family Talk,' that will be my greatest legacy.
James Dobson
#42. I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.
Bethenny Frankel
#43. Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
David Seabury
#44. The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
Lucian Leape
#45. That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#46. My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
Gene Wilder
#47. Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.
Charles W. Colson
#48. There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.
Ammianus Marcellinus
#49. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
#50. I have come to think that both sex and politics are a mistake and that any attempt to establish a connection between the two is the greatest error of all.
Quentin Crisp
#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. Mistake to suppose that mere good will is, by itself, a sufficient guarantee that all our efforts will finally attain to a good result. Serious mistakes can be made, even with the greatest good will.
Thomas Merton
#53. We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.
Tristan Tzara
#54. The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#55. Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
Henry Ford
#56. Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.
Elie Wiesel
#57. Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.
Dick Armey
#58. The destruction of Rayy taught us that calculated politics and unthinking rage - make no mistake, the two are sometimes hand in hand - are the greatest threats knowledge can face.
Rachel Caine
#59. Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.
Rick Joyner
#60. It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#61. One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.
T. B. Joshua
#63. God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
Betty Eadie
#64. Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.
Costa Georgiadis
