Serious Mistakes Quotes

#1. While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.

Tracy Guzeman

#3. So if I decide to leap for The Fountain when I finish this memo, I want to make one thing perfectly clear - I would genuinely love to make that leap, and if I don't I will always consider it a mistake and a failed opportunity, one of the very few serious mistakes of my First Life that is now ending.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

Benjamin Graham

#5. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

Richard L. Evans

#7. Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.

Travis Bradberry

#8. The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Nelson Mandela

#9. Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

John C. Bogle

#10. Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

Antonis Samaras

#11. I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

Joe Thomas

#12. If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

#13. Mistake to suppose that mere good will is, by itself, a sufficient guarantee that all our efforts will finally attain to a good result. Serious mistakes can be made, even with the greatest good will.

Thomas Merton

#14. The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes - and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Tom Clancy

#15. If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Douglas Wilder

#16. You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

Mikhail Prokhorov

#17. The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Peter F. Drucker

#18. You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

Kelly Link

#19. We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

C. G. Jung

#20. As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

Phil Hartman

#21. 27But he said, d What is impossible with man is possible with God.

Anonymous

#22. All the great sadnesses, great temptations, and great mistakes are almost always the result of being alone in life, without a prudent friend to advise us when we are troubled by something more serious than our normal everyday problems.

Jose Saramago

#23. I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Winston

#24. Lovely, not only did the truck look like it was on its last leg, it was going to take the environment with it.

Adrienne Wilder

#25. Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting in harmony with God's laws and inspiring others to do likewise.

Peace Pilgrim

#26. Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.

Max Lucado

#27. Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

Kurt Hanks

#28. Wisdom is the understanding that God exist, and that he is the creator of all life and things in the universe and upon Earth. This is truth. When we realize mistakes we have made, we should make serious efforts to correct them. This also, is truth.

Ellen J. Barrier

#29. If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.

Confucius

#30. Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.

William Shakespeare

#31. I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

Donald Pleasence

#32. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

#33. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Mike Huckabee