Top 100 Quotes About Making A Mistake
#1. Making a mistake isn't bad; what's bad is refusing to learn from it so you don't repeat it.
Colleen Houck
#2. The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#3. Be guided by the love of enjoyment, rather than the fear of making a mistake, when things are perfect, in a way, nothing has been learned.
Josephine Araldo
#4. You're making a mistake, shithead, Avasarala said, and dropped the connection.
James S.A. Corey
#5. The Christians think I am making a mistake by not trying the New Testament and meeting Jesus. The Jews tend to think I am making a mistake by reading without support from educated people. After all, there is 2,000 years of scholarship about the book, they say, so it's perverse of me to ignore it.
David Plotz
#6. People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Noah Weinberg
#7. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing
Susan Jeffers
#8. You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
#9. Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
Steven Soderbergh
#10. M'lord," Janos Slynt reminded him. "You'll address me-"
"I'll go, my lord. But you are making a mistake, my lord. You are sending the wrong man, my lord. Just the sight of me is going to anger Mance ...
George R R Martin
#11. If you try to find happiness in people, you are again making a mistake. Men and women can't give you happiness.
Girdhar Joshi
#12. Your biggest problem in ministry and in life isn't that you'll make a mistake, but that you'll be consumed by the fear of making a mistake.
Karl Vaters
#13. I reached for his hand. I also care enough about you to tell you you're making a mistake.
Kiera Cass
#14. Everyone makes mistakes. If everyone fell into the sand after making a mistake we would never get anywhere. We'd all be washed away in the sea, lost forever. Do you understand?
Celia Mcmahon
#15. Whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate
Nina LaCour
#16. At its root, perfectionism isn't really about a deep love of being meticulous. It's about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others. Fear of failure. Fear of success.
Michael Law
#17. After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#18. In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.
Jamake Highwater
#19. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
John Lubbock
#20. If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
Jack Kemp
#21. I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#22. I was petrified of making a mistake - head-banging to the wrong song or not hard enough, or thinking a guitar solo was over when it wasn't. A rule of thumb is that if the guitar solo is by Led Zep or Lynyrd Skynyrd then it's not over. Ever.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#23. It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.
Paulo Coelho
#24. 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
#25. If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the focus becomes not making a mistake, then it just feels rigid to me.
Marketa Irglova
#26. What good is making a mistake, if you don't learn from it?
Robin S. Sharma
#27. Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself: What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake, feeling rejected, looking foolish, or being alone? I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus.
Oprah Winfrey
#28. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#29. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
Troy Polamalu
#30. Demand perfection of yourself and you'll seldom attain it. Fear of making a mistake is the biggest single cause of making one. Relax - pursue excellence, not perfection.
Lloyd Winter
#31. I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.
Bridget Fonda
#32. The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.
John Capozzi
#33. Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#34. Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
Alain Prost
#35. I am somebody who ... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
Tiffeny Milbrett
#36. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#38. The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything
Thomas Carlyle
#39. He who disagrees with you could be correct whilst he who cheers you on could be making a mistake. Ponder.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#40. Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
Albert Einstein
#41. I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.
Thomas Perez
#42. By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
E.L. Konigsburg
#43. But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyses you is fear of making a mistake. If you have made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time.
Paulo Coelho
#45. The risk he was taking had to pay off. He had to win Mazy for himself. Even if he had to forfeit his own self-respect to make it happen. It was worth it to keep her from making a mistake again.
Pamela Morsi
#46. No use saying necessity is making a mistake.
Mason Cooley
#47. Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
Ignazio Silone
#48. The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.
Kendrick Lamar
#49. I think you're making a mistake," she whispered. "You don't need to go that party to meet a guy, you've got one that's crazy about you right here," she said, leaving me alone.
Jamie McGuire
#51. Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
Al D'Amato
#52. It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent). (Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him)
Anonymous
#53. In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
James Q. Wilson
#54. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
#55. Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again.
Helen Keller
#56. In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Daniel Greenberg
#57. One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov
#58. You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
Julia Cameron
#59. Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.
Brent Spiner
#60. I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon
Nick Bantock
#61. If I learned all this so slowly it was because I learned by my mistakes, and some time always elapses between making a mistake and realizing it, and more time between realizing it and exactly determining it.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#62. Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
Will Cuppy
#63. I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That's not how they are; that's how you perceive them at that moment. It's limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.
Philippe Petit
#64. The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
Erma Bombeck
#65. Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
David W. Earle
#66. When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.
Ward Cunningham
#67. When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
Nate Silver
#68. If you get too excited about any one interview, you're making a mistake, because people do cancel.
Brian Lamb
#69. I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.
Tariq Ramadan
#70. The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
Abraham Lincoln
#71. When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies ... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent ...
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
#72. Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal; it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!
Israelmore Ayivor
#73. All men have a natural fear of making a mistake
by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.
Soren Kierkegaard
#74. You know, sometimes marriage is iron. Sometimes it's tissue paper. And I
think the times it's tissue paper are when you need to keep things to yourself. Or you can end up making a mistake that you'll regret forever.
Elizabeth Berg
#75. Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.
Gerard Depardieu
#76. You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
#77. Not Afraid. I knew you were a person who ... wouldn't be forced ... Well, yes, I was afraid. I was afraid of you. Not of making a mistake. I knew it wasn't a mistake. But you were-yourself. You aren't like most people, you know. I was afraid of you because I knew you were my equal.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#82. No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
Albert Einstein
#84. You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.
Jodi Picoult
#85. 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
#86. Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson
#87. It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.
Max Irons
#88. 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
#89. If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Edwin Catmull
#90. Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I'm exhausting him. I'm making him sick and I'm weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he's using his gift to control what I might do -
Tahereh Mafi
#91. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#92. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.
Kevin Allen
#93. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.
Stephen Kinzer
#94. You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.
Joel Barker
#95. You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something
Rick Warren
#96. I made the same mistake that people have been making since the beginning of time, thinking that you can change yourself just by going somewhere else. Meu Deus, I sound like a self-help book.
Luiza Sauma
#97. The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yangming
#98. It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
Cory Doctorow
#99. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Benjamin Disraeli
#100. Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education only as a route to a better career. Reading books, studying history - all these things contribute to making us better citizens, too.
Rebecca Mead
