My Worst Mistake Quotes

#1. My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill

#3. I learn from my mistakes, and falling for you was by far the worst mistake I've ever made.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#4. Why am I here? You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.

T.D. Jakes

#5. The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

John Ashcroft

#6. We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers

Robert E.Lee

#7. But, honey, the worst mistake beats the hell out of never tryin

Julie Ann Walker

#8. I am scared like you all people, that tomorrow I will be examined, that there is chance to get something bad as a result, that I will mistake in saying a word aloud or something more worst than this...

Deyth Banger

#9. Don't thank me. I'm not pleased with it. Loving you has been the single worst mistake of my life. It's just as enraging as I remember, and I'm making just as many mistakes.

Quil Carter

#10. The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.

Michael Porter

#12. You have to allow yourself to make a mistake now and then. Sometimes in our lives, the best results come from the worst mistakes.

Melody Anne

#13. Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as "the worst mistake in the history of the human race.")

Gary Taubes

#14. The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.

Magnus Scheving

#15. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.

Yann Martel

#16. The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

Alan Dershowitz

#17. The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as it is to think about, these mistakes, complications and unexpected outcomes get discussed openly, and everyone hopefully gains something from it.

Sanjay Gupta

#18. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

George Bernard Shaw

#19. We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#20. If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

Meek Mill

#21. The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

#22. I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.

Katie Klein

#23. Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

John Nance Garner

#24. We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Jillian Michaels

#25. The worst mistake you can make, Kroeber taught, is to see another person through the lens of your prejudices. And the second-worst mistake is to think you aren't looking though the lens of your prejudices.

Paul La Farge

#26. My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

Anne Lamott

#27. When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

Robert Greene

#28. I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines,

Warren Buffett

#29. His first - and worst - mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make the decisions that led to his early demise.

Tom Robbins

#30. The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

Natalia Kills

#31. Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

Tony Dorsett

#32. Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.

Mod Sun

#33. I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

#34. The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.

Shakira

#35. I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

Jeff Zucker

#36. The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you ...

Drake

#37. One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

Ronald Reagan

#38. I'm nothing without you, Ly. I just don't work without you. You've broken me." He smiles. "You are everything to me and I will spend the rest of my life showing you that you didn't make the worst mistake of your life by falling in love with a must like me.

Samantha Towle

#39. New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

Aby Rosen

#40. I was against it [war in Middle East]. And I was against it very early. And we shouldn't have been in there. And I think it is probably perhaps the worst mistake we have ever made. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Center, OK? It wasn't Iraq. It was other people.

Donald Trump

#41. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Warren G. Bennis

#42. But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.

Walker Percy

#43. One of the worst mistakes you can make in golf is trying to force the game.

Jack Nicklaus

#44. The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

David Brin

#45. The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

Myles Munroe

#46. 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

#47. Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

David Lloyd George

#48. The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#49. It'd be a mistake," Lee said. "I think maybe you have to make a few," Merrin said. "If you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.

Joe Hill

#50. My own husband was divorced when we met, but without kids. I don't know what I would have done if he'd had them. I got the message very early on that the worst mistake a woman can make is marrying a man with children.

Ayelet Waldman