Top 65 Only One Mistake Quotes
#2. Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.
George Oppen
#3. In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.
Savielly Tartakower
#4. 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
#5. With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
Red Adair
#6. I think that when you're in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you've done. But, you know, no one's perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I'm only human.
Dakota Fanning
#7. Corporations, being only human, make mistakes. Sometimes you may end up working for one of those mistakes.
Lois Wyse
#8. I lost the match. I blame only myself for this. There were many opportunities to win. But I missed them, no one else.
Anatoly Karpov
#9. Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don't commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.
Osho
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
Anton Chekhov
#13. They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.
Ferdie Pacheco
#14. One only has an adventure when one makes a mistake, but [as] my grandmother used to say: "You don't have to get out of trouble if you don't get into trouble."
Richard S. Wheeler
#15. It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.
Marcel Proust
#16. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Winston S. Churchill
#17. No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Luc De Clapiers
#18. There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
George Horace Lorimer
#19. 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
#20. It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
James E. Faust
#22. It is natural for a person to make a mistake (commit a fault). What is the way to become free from that? Only the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] can show it, (which is) 'Pratikraman'.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. I hope this book helps people to heal & their not the only one because no one is a mistake God put you on earth for one reason. I am not a mistake.
Shawn Woods
#24. 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
#25. One little step of a Big Mistake,
ruins only your life
and the love of someone else.
September 24, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
Amen
Petra Hermans
#26. Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.
Robert Genn
#27. My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#28. If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you'll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person ... has ever done great things because they played it safe. You've got to be true to yourself.
Carson Kressley
#29. I always think everybody has only one major heartbreak in their life. If you think you've had two, you can't have. The big one just musn't have happened to you yet - so watch your back. If you'd had it, you wouldn't mistake it for anything else.
Joanna Barnard
#30. I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
Karen Joy Fowler
#32. We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
Ben Bradlee
#33. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. He was the monster that no one thought to look for in the light of day. It was a common mistake. People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety - like light - is a facade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness.
C.J. Roberts
#35. One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.
Oprah Winfrey
#36. Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.
Johannes Rau
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt
#40. When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me
Every freckle on my face is where it's suppose to be
And I know my creator didn't make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I'm loving what I see
India.Arie
#41. It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#42. Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#43. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Vladimir Horowitz
#44. As she entered and locked eyes with Mr Vaughn Granger for only the second time ever, she was aware of two things; one, coming to his office had been a huge mistake and two; she was totally and utterly screwed.
Jade Reyner
#45. The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
Carol Grace
#47. The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.
Teddy Roosevelt
#48. When we teach kids to follow the rules that there's only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we're resigning them to average.
Josh Linkner
#49. The laws of the universe are never broken. Your mistake is to think that the little regularities we have observed on one planet for a few hundred years are the real unbreakable laws; whereas they are only the remote results which the true laws bring about more often than not; as a kind of accident.
C.S. Lewis
#50. The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.
Vladimir Lenin
#51. Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
Albert Einstein
#52. If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.
Michelle Shocked
#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
#54. I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Bernard Baruch
#55. What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.
Swami Vivekananda
#56. Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it's the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.
Anthony Marais
#57. Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.
Siobhan Vivian
#58. 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
#59. Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
Vladimir Kramnik
#60. If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
D.H. Lawrence
#61. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
#62. Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.
Georges Bataille
#63. The only mistake is not to risk making one.
Max Lucado
#64. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford
#65. You made a mistake. One fucking enormous, stupid mistake. That's all. Now get over it. Buck up and fix it, and if you can't fix it, keep going anyway. It's the only way to live.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh