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. It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

Max Irons

#5. 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

#6. You're making a mistake, shithead, Avasarala said, and dropped the connection.

James S.A. Corey

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something

Rick Warren

#20. If you try to find happiness in people, you are again making a mistake. Men and women can't give you happiness.

Girdhar Joshi

#21. 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

#22. I reached for his hand. I also care enough about you to tell you you're making a mistake.

Kiera Cass

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

Cory Doctorow

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

Benjamin Disraeli

#30. 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

#31. AS A chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake.

Andy Weir

#32. To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield

#33. After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#34. It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

Dan Millman

#35. When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Bill Cosby

#36. But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

Seneca.

#37. If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

John C. Maxwell

#38. You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.

Buck Brannaman

#39. Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.

Monica Chrisandtras Hines

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

Jack Kemp

#43. Sometimes it is time to make new mistakes to finally learn a particular lesson, if making the same mistake again doesn't teach you.

Ben Tolosa

#44. 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

#45. We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#46. After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

Ron Paul

#47. I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Bre Pettis

#48. Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.

Wally Amos

#49. 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

#50. Don't be afraid to screw up ! ... one of the key issues to learning is making mistakes ... if you're not making mistakes, you're probably not having a very good time

Robben Ford

#51. I think of what it means to be a teenager in America, necessarily pushing boundaries, making expected mistakes. Here there is no margin for error: a mistake, no matter how insignificant, dashes any small hopes to break the cycle of poverty. Here in Kibera the world is relentless and unforgiving.

Jessica Posner

#52. I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a mistake. I should have listened to her fear, comforted her. Instead I'd promised her that everything would be okay, that she would heal.

Kristin Hannah

#53. It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake.

Paulo Coelho

#54. Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

Robert Breault

#55. It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster.
There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

Helen Keller

#56. One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#57. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

Johnny Cash

#58. Punishing yourself for a mistake is making another mistake. Correction comes from caring, not from guilt.

Karlyle Tomms

#59. 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

#60. I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes ... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away ... what a rage I was in!

Claude Monet

#61. 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

#62. What good is making a mistake, if you don't learn from it?

Robin S. Sharma

#63. There is no greater mistake than to make light of an enemy By making light of an enemy many a kingdom has been lost.

Laozi

#64. 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

#65. You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

Derek Williams

#66. If I heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times from Ray Hunt. He said 'make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy'. Then he said 'but don't make the wrong thing impossible'. Well ... you learn from making mistakes. It's that simple.

Buck Brannaman

#67. We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

Rob Glaser

#68. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#69. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#70. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

Seth Godin

#71. The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

Juan Enriquez

#72. 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

#73. Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

Francoise Giroud

#74. 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

#75. It was almost funny, to be making this mistake. She was too old for this shit. Crying was for pussies. Making a mess of herself served no purpose at all. Now was the time to toughen up.

Kylie Scott

#76. My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

Lincoln Steffens

#77. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Jim Thompson

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

Unknown

#81. You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me.

Daniel Gillies

#82. Mistake number one: don't ever expect a woman to do what you think she's going to do.
Mistake number two: don't ever tell her what to do because that's a surefire way of making sure she doesn't. - cowboy John

Ridley Pearson

#83. I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens.

David Lynch

#84. If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

David Brin

#85. Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Peter Drucker

#86. The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

John Capozzi

#87. Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#88. So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

Ahdaf Soueif

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

Akio Morita

#92. Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

Allen Iverson

#93. It really doesn't matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.

Joleon Lescott

#94. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. 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

#96. You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#97. We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake - like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

Marvin Minsky

#98. 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

#99. After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

Charlie Munger

#100. He who disagrees with you could be correct whilst he who cheers you on could be making a mistake. Ponder.

Mufti Ismail Menk