Top 100 Made Mistakes Quotes

#1. We are taught to treat a practice sword with all the respect of a real weapon, so no thoughtless mistakes are made"
"Oh ... In Eddis, we learn to keep tack of the weapon we have in our hand.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

#3. Is there a God? Yeah, but there's not just one God. There's a whole lot of gods, because one God couldn't have possibly made so many mistakes all by Himself. This had to be done by committee.

John Leguizamo

#4. One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

Damon Lindelof

#5. I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

Lisa Marie Presley

#6. Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Reed Hastings

#7. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

Mary Pickford

#8. God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.

Valorie Burton

#9. People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.

Albert Belle

#10. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#11. Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

Barbara Jordan

#12. All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

Vonda N. McIntyre

#13. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

David Baldacci

#14. In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.

Tima Maria Lacoba

#15. If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

Mohith Agadi

#16. A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little longer.

Paul Aurandt Jr.

#17. Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#18. Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.

Walter Wriston

#19. I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Paul Kane

#20. I made mistakes. I trusted both too little and too much. But, by the gods, I tried so hard. I gave everything I had.
I have always done the best I could, and yet, somehow,it has never been enough. No one cared what I did. They always turned their backs on me. Why can't I be like that?

Marie Lu

#21. I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Pat Conroy

#22. One Life To Live , Thousands Of Mistakes To Be Made

Archie Bunk

#23. God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. But even so, every time I learned something about myself
-Misato Katsuragi

Hideaki Anno

#24. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

Phyllis McGinley

#25. If you live long enough as a parent, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about as well as the ones you do know about, all too well. You are somewhat humbled at heart, sometimes disgusted with yourself. I don't think my father felt anything like this.

Alice Munro

#26. I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

Newt Gingrich

#27. Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

Adele

#28. I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Emma Goldman

#29. You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I have too. But I believe we're more than the sum of our mistakes. I didn't used to. I thought I was a piece of shit. I thought I was nothing.

Lexi Ryan

#30. I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. When you're more experienced and have been in the car crash a million times, and have made mistakes and learned from them, everything slows down and something as small as shoes can stand out.

Mark Owen

#32. Our government leaders ... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

Samuel Dash

#33. In the end, it doesn't matter what words are said or unsaid ... Life's mistakes are made whether you can see them or not. What counts is how we learn to live with them.

Gail Tsukiyama

#34. If you play poorly one day, forget it.
If you play poorly the next time out, review your fundamentals of grip, stance, aim and ball position. Most mistakes are made before the club is swung.
If you play poorly for a third time in a row, go see your professional.

Harvey Penick

#35. It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

Rupert Murdoch

#36. Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

Donn Moomaw

#37. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

#38. I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

Bear Bryant

#39. I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

Heath Ledger

#40. I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

William J. Clinton

#41. Be careful that you don't judge success by what people look like, what they have done, or by mistakes they have made.

Dwight Bain

#42. You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

Tenth Avenue North

#43. Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin. What a comforting assurance it is to know that through our Savior's redeeming sacrifice, we can be forgiven and made clean again.

Ann M. Dibb

#44. I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.

David Blunkett

#45. We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

Fred Thompson

#46. You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

Joely Richardson

#47. Your past - It's not a series of mistakes, love. It's just you. All the things that happened to you that made you who you are.

Ruthie Knox

#48. I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cathy Moriarty

#49. It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

Calvin Coolidge

#50. Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.

Bob Ross

#51. You have always been what I want. I just made mistakes along the way. I told you that I would make it up to you, that I would show you what I could be for you, if you would only let me.

K.A. Linde

#52. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Alan Cohen

#53. Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.'
'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.
'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#54. The game of golf doesn't come rushing back to you. Last week I made a couple of fundamental mistakes that I probably wouldn't have made in the heat of the battle back when I was in my heyday, and those things have got to come back.

Greg Norman

#55. The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.

Gayle Forman

#56. During the debate, Bush was asked by a lady to name three mistakes he's made. And Bush responded, this debate, the last debate and the next debate.

Bill Maher

#57. I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Nick Nolte

#58. The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

James Toback

#59. The theoretically interesting category-mistakes are those made by people who are perfectly competent to apply concepts, at least in the situations with which they are familiar, but are still liable in their abstract thinking to allocate those concepts to logical types to which they do not belong)

Anonymous

#60. I want to learn from the mistakes my dad made.

Charlie Adam

#61. But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too long. This is another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: if you make a mistake, don't dwell on it too long, because you'll make more of them.

Brock Clarke

#62. I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

Tom Brady

#63. He was young and had been rough with time, listening to its bad advice he had made mistakes, had compromised himself, had trespassed against good behavior and prudence, both in his words and works.

Thomas Mann

#64. When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

Dave Eggers

#65. Charming is the perfect word to describe Charlie [Sheen]. That's why people love him. He's so personable. They can relate to him. He made mistakes and he knows it. Everyone is like that. That is why he has so many fans.

Daniela Bobadilla

#66. I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.

Gary Condit

#67. I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

Lindsay Lohan

#68. How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

Benjamin Franklin

#69. 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

#70. All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

Raekwon

#71. Embrace who you are. Learn to be comfortable with who God made you. Develop the mindset that the creator doesn't make mistakes.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#72. Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can't be good, be careful.

Baltasar Gracian

#73. All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

Alma Kruger

#74. I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

Harry Connick Jr.

#75. I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.

Andrew Zimbalist

#76. One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Dick Gephardt

#77. I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye

#78. In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#79. History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

Zephyr Teachout

#80. I learned directing by editing because I saw all the mistakes I had made.

Julie Delpy

#81. You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

Simon Kinberg

#82. I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'

John Fund

#83. Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.

Elizabeth Dole

#84. It's not the successes in life that teach us a lesson, it's the mistakes we made to get there that truly teach us.

Steven Aitchison

#85. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.

Marianne Williamson

#86. You love someone despite all their flaws. You love someone despite the fact that they have made mistakes. You love someone because you care about them

Aria From The Curse Of Everwood By B. V. Taylor

#87. I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

Mary Miller

#88. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero ... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Frank Herbert

#89. All I ask is ... ponder with open minds. We've made so many mistakes, humanity, during just one lifetime. Many of them perpetrated not by evildoers, drenched in malice, but by men and women filled with fine motives! Like you.

David Brin

#90. I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Monica Lewinsky

#91. The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

Kiefer Sutherland

#92. When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Natalie Gulbis

#93. I don't look upon my divorces as mistakes. Those marriages were right for the Bess that made that decision at that time.

Bess Myerson

#94. There is no end. No wrong turn. No structure. Only space. You say: 'I am afraid I am going to hit a wall.' Well, guess what - it's made of space.

Bentinho Massaro

#95. It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

Patrick Ness

#96. I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#97. Like most of us, Joe Biden has had moments when he's led the league in mistakes or verbal gaffes. The difference is his were on a public stage where explanations are almost always made out by pundits to be excuses.

Mike Barnicle

#98. 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.

Grantland Rice

#99. We have all made mistakes in our many incarnations that have caused us to retrace our spiritual steps. Some have made more mistakes than others. But it's part of the experience to spiritually fall from time to time.

Martin Barbara Moraitis Dimitri

#100. If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.

E.R. Mason

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