Top 100 Quotes About A Mistake
#2. When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
Bear Bryant
#3. So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.
Art Blakey
#4. Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.
Robert Kiyosaki
#5. Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.
Mohammed VI Of Morocco
#6. Everybody is slapping me on the back and cheering and congratulating me. But it doesn't seem real. There must be a mistake. How ... how could
Suzanne Collins
#7. It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.
William Sloane Coffin
#9. I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims
#10. With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.
Donny Osmond
#11. One waltz," he said gently. Distrusting her own response to him, the magnitude of her desire to step into his arms, Lillian shook her head. "I think ... I think that would be a mistake. Thank you, but - " "Coward.
Lisa Kleypas
#12. For the tenth time, I wonder if I made a mistake escaping the castle.
Kassandra Lynn
#13. It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.
Margaret E. Knight
#14. I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I like a sense of freedom. I like it when people are open and are willing to let you do your work.
Richard Jenkins
#15. It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.
Gilles Deleuze
#16. Customer service was my number one priority. A lot of people run their businesses like their customers are dummies. This is a mistake. If you're just out to take their money, they know it. But if you genuinely care about what you're doing, they will respond.
Sophia Amoruso
#17. They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
Nicolas Roeg
#18. Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
Plato
#20. I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.
Celine Dion
#21. The city is physical, concrete," Pedro [da Luz] said. "When we make a mistake, it is a mistake that will last for forty, fifty years. That's a problem.
Juliana Barbassa
#22. Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.
Coventry Patmore
#23. When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#24. Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.
Frederick Lenz
#25. It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#26. Every time you make a mistake, don't bring up everything that's wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you're paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
John C. Maxwell
#27. While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
Frederick Lenz
#28. He was bested by a better fighter, ... I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.
Antonio Tarver
#29. Admittedly, a book about pro-life apologetics may not appeal to some lay Christians. It seems many believers would rather focus on end times rather than these times. That's a mistake. Humans who ignore questions about truth and human value may soon learn what it really means to be left behind.
Scott Klusendorf
#30. It wasn't the best choice. I made a mistake. It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed. And as I have said and as now has come out, my predecessors did the same thing and many other people in the government.
Hillary Clinton
#31. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.
Jim Morrison
#32. We rent one in three tuxedos in the U.S. and Canada, and if we make a mistake, our employees will deliver to the customer's home, office, or wedding. We get a couple hundred letters a week praising the service in our stores.
George Zimmer
#33. I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.
Andrew Wyatt
#34. I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that I do, as an actor. It's a much higher scale of fear, raising kids.
Bruce Willis
#35. I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#36. If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admission of error is good model-setting for patients and another sign that they matter to you.
Irvin D. Yalom
#37. No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
Albert Einstein
#38. All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.
Shunryu Suzuki
#39. Sometimes love isn't forever. Sometimes it's just moments in your life that teach you. If it's the forever after kind of love, it'll find you again. If it isn't, don't let a broken heart break you. Let it make you love harder. Love is a mistake worth making.
R.K. Ryals
#40. I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.
John Gutfreund
#41. I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse.
Penelope Douglas
#42. Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.
Nick Offerman
#43. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert V. Prochnow
#44. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
Adam Osborne
#46. Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
Pat Summitt
#47. A guy has to have the want-to. You don't just make plays by a mistake, by accident.
Anquan Boldin
#49. It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
Richard Paul Evans
#50. Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.
Melissa Marr
#51. To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.
Rand Paul
#52. Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
Erica Jong
#53. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. You'll gain the power, but with the current mindset that you have you'll probably create more unhappiness for yourself than happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#54. I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
Kelley Armstrong
#55. Our aim as scientists is objective truth; more truth, more interesting truth, more intelligible truth. We cannot reasonably aim at certainty. Once we realize that human knowledge is fallible, we realize also that we can never be completely certain that we have not made a mistake.
Karl Popper
#56. One makes mistakes; that is life.
But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland
#57. Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg
#58. A mistake like that can be forgiven, but never forgotten.
M.L. Wiekel
#59. Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
Reba McEntire
#60. If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.
Vladimir Putin
#61. My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young.
Willa Cather
#62. If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation.
David Bronstein
#63. The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Salma Hayek
#64. You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
Lacey Sturm
#65. Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
A. J. Jacobs
#66. If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
Albert Camus
#67. If a forward makes a mistake, he can try again. If he scores, he's in with a shout of the Ballon d'Or. But when it's a defender who slips up, it's a far more delicate situation. In percentage terms, the people who play at the back make fewer mistakes than those further forward.
Andrea Pirlo
#68. I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.
Cheryl Strayed
#69. If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#70. Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
#71. It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
Cyril Connolly
#72. Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.
Charles Bukowski
#73. I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.
Rick Riordan
#74. It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.
Steve Goodier
#75. Maybe that's the mark of a real leader. Admitting a mistake has been made and finding a way to stop it at all costs.
Joelle Charbonneau
#76. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Marva Collins
#77. If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.
John Salley
#78. Changing your mind is okay. It shows wisdom and maturity. Never wavering from a belief no matter what is a mistake. What matters is trying to be as closely aligned with truth and reality as you can be at all times. And that requires many navigational adjustments over a lifetime.
Guy P. Harrison
#79. I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger
#80. Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#81. That you don't know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people's actions with real understanding.
Marcus Aurelius
#82. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
#83. The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.
Milton Friedman
#84. I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.
Don Rickles
#85. We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America
as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
D.H. Lawrence
#86. I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
Holly McPeak
#87. It is already apparent that the 'minimalist' view of the Bible as wholly fictitious and unhooked from historical reality, may be as much of a mistake as the biblical literalism it sought to supersede.
Simon Schama
#88. If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it's just their behavior.
Steve Maraboli
#89. Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
#90. 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
#91. Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.
Lucinda Fleeson
#92. Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly ... even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.
Jack Canfield
#94. Most wars start because someone makes a mistake, and most battles are lost by the losing side rather than won by the victors. I'm not sure if that makes things better or worse. I suppose it depends on which you disapprove of more, malice or stupidity.
K.J. Parker
#95. I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
Emanuel Lasker
#96. I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.
Hugh Hefner
#97. No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."
Bill Hader
#98. I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.
Lisa Kudrow
#99. It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself.
Christie Golden
#100. I made a mistake, but I didn't beat myself up about it. No, I beat up my clone.
Jarod Kintz
