Top 100 The Biggest Mistake Quotes
#1. The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
#3. 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
#4. I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. Giving up is not an option. It is the biggest mistake one can make and there's nothing to be learnt from it
Lyrikal
#6. The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
Dorothy Day
#7. The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon
Jacquelyn Frank
#8. The biggest mistake I see people make is they are not on the right program. You should be circuit training and performing cardio 4-6 days a week (depending on time).
Scott Herman
#9. The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
Paulo Coelho
#10. 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
#11. The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.
Ernie Els
#12. She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless
Isha Karki
#13. This could be the biggest mistake of my life. Or it could be the most perfect prize. One you've earned.
Belle Aurora
#14. Christopher throws dandelion head after dandelion head into his bag. It's getting heavy now and his fingers are stained from the work but there are still so many left to kill. His biggest mistake is giving them names.
Brian Martinez
#15. We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming.
Nigel Farage
#16. I think that I the biggest thing that I need is more creative time. More time to make mistakes.
Jacob Hashimoto
#18. The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.
Mehmet Oz
#19. The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
Brian De Palma
#20. Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault; the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.
Dada Bhagwan
#21. The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in ... the separation of self and other.
Steve Hagen
#22. One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and bathrooms; they send fans autographed pictures. All that serves to support viewers with a delusional relationship with the celebrity.
Park Dietz
#23. The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
David Malpass
#25. The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.
J.P. Bloch
#26. I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.
Lisa Kleypas
#27. The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.
M.J. Rose
#28. The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.
Luanne Rice
#29. The biggest mistake i have done is to trust YOU ...
A2KDON
#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. When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.
Drew Houston
#32. The biggest mistake we commit in life is to think that others will get affected by our action and we shall leave some effect on them..
In this hope, we make others' reactions our priority and fail to perform the task we're supposed to do right at the moment.
Himmilicious
#33. Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.
Leslie Mann
#34. One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.
Scott Hall
#35. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm Forbes
#36. I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes.
Gurbaksh Chahal
#37. Getting married in four days was the biggest ... mistake I've ever made. I have two beautiful kids, but ... how can you know somebody in four days? Bonehead.
Tommy Lee
#38. The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Brian Tracy
#39. I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their f***ing world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.
Rick Remender
#40. He only sound was of the crickets, and the glittering speckled of stars on the night sky as witness of her biggest mistake, the night when it changed her life forever.
Diyar Harraz
#41. All I can really tell you, laddie, is to live for today. For the moment. Wasting time is the biggest mistake we can make in lo-ove.
Elizabeth Morgan
#42. The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#43. The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.
Steven Magee
#44. The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque
#45. The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.
Joey Harrington
#46. Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.
Harvey Penick
#47. One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
Aaron Ross
#48. I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.
Andrew Zimbalist
#49. A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.
Jaron Lanier
#50. Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.
Ben Affleck
#51. I'm not defending him; I have no idea why he's made the choices he has. But ... I can't help but feel sorry for him. Because one day he's going to open his eyes and realize that he's made the biggest mistake of his life.
Emma Chase
#52. When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.
John Novak
#53. Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.
Steven Magee
#54. The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
John Major
#56. Being selfless is the biggest wiring mistake in us.
Himmilicious
#57. I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.
Jessica Valenti
#58. The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment
Dorian Yates
#59. But I thought you were home to stay," she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.
"Ellie, you were my home." He looked down at the sleeping infant. "But I can't stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life.
Lindsey Brookes
#60. A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
Steve McConnell
#61. My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Kemmons Wilson
#62. As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
Richard Rogers
#63. Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.
Sharleen Spiteri
#64. The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself
Brian Tracy
#65. The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.
Darren LaCroix
#66. Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential.
Amy Morin
#67. The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
Mark Zuckerberg
#68. The old dictum was backward. It should be "Better not to
have loved at all, than to love and have lost." I had done the
right thing, I reassured myself. So why did it feel like I had
made the biggest mistake of my life?
Amy Plum
#69. The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.
Steven Magee
#70. People aren't special. They never were. We're the biggest mistake in the universe.
Joe Hart
#71. Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.
Michael Jackson
#72. I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.
Joe Bowen
#73. The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.
John Mayer
#74. I clutch my chest as I try to keep breathing. "What? I don't understand. You ... you said we couldn't get married. You ... you broke my heart." "It was the biggest mistake of my life. I could see it then and I can see it even more now. Letting you go was the single stupidest thing I've ever done.
Cassia Leo
#75. You made me see that friendship is a farce and trusting anyone other than myself is the biggest mistake I could make. It was a lesson I had been learning my whole life up until that point. But you tattooed it on my soul in a way I could never forget.
Aly Martinez
#76. My last conscious thought was of my biggest mistake- not the boy beside me, but the one i could never have.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#77. 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
#78. One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.
Charlotte Beers
#79. The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising
Jeff Goodby
#80. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
Mark Cuban
#81. I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone could make, and yet universally accepted. I had arrived.
Carl-John X. Veraja
#82. She didn't care what this group wanted with her. She didn't care what sort of information they expected to twist from her. When they had taken Chaol, they'd made the biggest mistake of their lives. The last mistake, too.
Sarah J. Maas
#83. Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.
Steve Squyres
#84. The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake
Thad Matta
#85. The biggest mistake brands make are trying to "sell their stuff" rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.
David Brier
#86. The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
Witter Bynner
#87. Witchling. Elide stared after her. She had likely just made the biggest mistake of her life, but ... it was strange. Strange, that feeling of belonging.
Sarah J. Maas
#88. The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#89. The biggest fashion mistake people make is they try to hang on to their youth. Embrace who you are now-your body, your lifestyle, your coloring.
Joseph Abboud
#90. The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#91. The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.
Lillian Vernon
#93. Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom.
Toba Beta
#94. When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.
David Letterman
#95. The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.
Robert E.Lee
#96. A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
Dick Cavett
#97. The biggest mistake of humanity is to have great agendas without knowing the very purpose of life
Vladimir Vinitzki
#98. The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon,
Eric Schmidt
#99. The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.
Gregory Benford
#100. The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.
Andy Andrews
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