Top 100 One Mistake Quotes
#1. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
R.J. Palacio
#2. We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
Yasmin Mogahed
#3. With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
Red Adair
#4. When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.
Jim Petro
#6. But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
Robert Harris
#7. Some mistakes ... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.
Jojo Moyes
#8. One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!
Fred Dibnah
#9. One mistake can cause everything or may I say someone special :-(
Rose
#10. You know how the press is: If I mention one mistake, that's the only thing that bothers me unless I mention all the other ones.
Neil Young
#11. Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
#12. I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.
Harold Ramis
#13. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
#16. One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.
Lucy Larcom
#17. Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.
Robert Kiyosaki
#18. But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
Geraldine Ferraro
#19. Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs - one mistake and everyone gets blown up.
Artur Boruc
#20. I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake and have to remove it all! I'd rather play up my eyes with winged eyeliner.
Bethany Mota
#22. One mistake I will never regret for the rest of my life, it is Ashton Henley.
K.A. Tucker
#24. I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything.
Georges St-Pierre
#25. Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.
George Oppen
#26. One mistake does not define you, Julian. Do you understand me? You must simply act better next time.
R.J. Palacio
#27. In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
Savielly Tartakower
#28. Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.
Siobhan Vivian
#29. Even if you're an outstanding fighter, you can lose your life with one mistake.
Auliq Ice
#30. When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.
Allan McNish
#31. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it's social death row. I'm the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking.
-Riley
Dawn Klehr
#32. One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.
Joyce Meyer
#35. You can't hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.
DJ Quik
#36. It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you
Jojo Moyes
#38. Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.
Madison Smartt Bell
#39. Stay in Latin America, learn photography, and make all your professional mistakes in Argentina," he said, "because if you make one mistake in New York, no one will give you a second chance.
Lynsey Addario
#40. Double one mistake?
Seriously?
Sounds like something is going on...!
Deyth Banger
#42. Every woman should make one mistake matrimonially. - Alex Restarick
Agatha Christie
#43. I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.
Rafael Palmeiro
#44. A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.
Bart Starr
#45. They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.
Ferdie Pacheco
#46. Surviving in the township is like swimming in the ocean one mistake you drown
Thabiso Monkoe
#47. I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir Horowitz
#48. It's not fair to spend so much time working towards something, only to have someone else's lapse in judgment, poor choice, one mistake, destroy it all.
Kristin Walker
#49. Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Fletcher Knebel
#51. He doesn't bother to talk, and I don't either, but we look. We stare. And for a moment, I am sure of everything. For a second, with my bare feet on the fresh thick grass, there has not been, for any of us, even one mistake.
Katie Crouch
#52. Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.
Sinead O'Connor
#53. The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.
Alison Sweeney
#54. You're so obsessed with one mistake you made a long time ago that you can't see all the people you've hurt along the way. You can't fix everything. Some choices you just have to accept, and try and rebuild as best as you can.
Max Landis
#55. One mistake is enough for all your life. So, where is the place of a mischief-maker?
Behnam Rajabpoor
#56. Sometimes one mistake ruins the whole thing.
Janice Liang
#57. Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
Charles Stross
#58. An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
Peter Beard
#59. Then put this behind you. You don't have to change who you are because of one mistake. You only have to make sure you don't repeat it.
Kathleen Fuller
#60. I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.
Kurupt
#61. The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#62. You are allowed to make mistakes, Nell. And even though it might seem right now like one mistake is enough to derail your entire future, it's not.
Cora Carmack
#63. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.
H.L. Mencken
#64. Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.
Brian Boitano
#65. Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?
Marie Lu
#66. The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
Caitlin Moran
#67. The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake
Thad Matta
#68. One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Harvey MacKay
#70. You made one mistake and you shouldn't beat yourself up for it for the rest of your life.
Brenna Aubrey
#72. To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
Deyth Banger
#73. They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.
Robert McNamara
#74. You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten.
Tyga
#75. Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#76. The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
Daisy Bates
#77. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. She wore her body like a mistake she hoped to one day be forgiven for.
Naomi Jackson
#79. Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.
Julian Fellowes
#80. Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.
Miklos Laszlo
#81. Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
A.C. Grayling
#82. It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.
Christopher Hitchens
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.
Kenneth Fisher
#86. One of the key components of your mistake recovery strategy is to just stop, learn, get rid of the emotion and the feeling of shame and burden, and move on.
Carla Harris
#87. A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
R. Scott Bakker
#88. No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
Henry Petroski
#89. The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
D.T. Suzuki
#90. It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.
Winston Graham
#91. In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.
John Edwards
#92. Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake.
Hugh Prather
#93. Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
#94. Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
#95. 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
#96. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...
Jennifer Crusie
#97. Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.
Rebecca Solnit
#98. Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannot
stand before me and live. No man ever has." The words were spoken softly, yet no one disbelieved the
old man.
David Gemmell
#99. As a manager you are important sometimes and you make mistakes, but the most important people are your staff and your players. Never call me the special one.
Rafael Benitez
#100. I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
Albert Einstein
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