Top 100 Wrong Mistake Quotes
#1. Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.
Shashi Tharoor
#2. I don't want to make the wrong mistake.
Yogi Berra
#3. But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Peter Hook
#4. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Burt Bacharach
#6. What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.
William Faulkner
#7. My dad's primary emotion is regret. It's like he made some giant mistake in his past, like he took a wrong turn, and instead of ending up wherever he was supposed to be, he ended up in this life [...] instead.
Nicola Yoon
#8. Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.
Harriet Evans
#9. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
Violante Placido
#10. Of course I shall go astray often ... for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#11. I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I'd been searching for.
Luci Shaw
#12. I have made twice mistake in my whole life; both falling in love with the wrong people.
M.F. Moonzajer
#13. I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.
Katie Klein
#14. I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.
Bob Hudson
#15. Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.
Ava Gardner
#16. Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!
Chuck Smith
#17. What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.
Kenneth Fisher
#18. A mistake is something that you did
thinking it was right but it was wrong.
A sin is something that you know is
wrong.
Anwar Al-Awlaki
#19. Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.
David Brooks
#20. It's not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
Evan Osnos
#22. Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.
Edgar Cayce
#23. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
George Bernard Shaw
#24. I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for the exam and understand that this is only the tip of some shadowy cataclysm or lifelong mistake.
Alice Munro
#25. I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.
Ray Dalio
#27. I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here - that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.
Joe Hill
#28. He has been in her heart for so long it is as if she knows him already, but she doesn't. She does not know what to say or how to say it, and suddenly she is afraid that there is a wrong way to move forward, a mistake that once made cannot be undone.
Kristin Hannah
#29. All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
#30. Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.
Charles Bukowski
#31. Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
Oscar Wilde
#32. I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
Charles M. Schulz
#33. No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.
Robert Harris
#34. 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
#35. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out.
I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq.
We've been following time as it goes forward.
What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.
Jon Stewart
#36. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
E. Stanley Jones
#37. Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.
Richard Carlson
#38. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#39. I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way.
Mishka
#40. It's not who was right or who was wrong when a mistake was made. It's about who learned from it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#41. Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.
David Gemmell
#42. It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#43. To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.
George Soros
#44. This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.
Anna Kendrick
#45. I turn and look at Hunter, whose face is one giant question mark. "I've made a mistake," I try to explain to him. "I said yes to you for the wrong reasons and I'm sorry. I really am.
Jessica Brody
#47. If one wants to be active, one must not be afraid of going wrong, one must not be afraid of making mistakes now and then. Many people think that they will become good just by doing no harm
but that's a lie ... That way lies stagnation, mediocrity.
Vincent Van Gogh
#48. The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.
Greg Behrendt
#49. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
Warren Buffett
#51. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.
Tamara Mellon
#52. I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
Johan Cruijff
#53. They took the wrong ones! Mistake was made! Everything is unfair! Who do we complain to, in this shitty place? Who is in charge here?]
Donna Tartt
#54. I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself.
Jaime Murray
#55. I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
Al Pacino
#56. If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.
Giuseppe Venuti
#57. It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Junius
#58. Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that they made a mistake and got the wrong person.
Will Poulter
#59. Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.
Ivanka Trump
#60. We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another's error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
Charles Spurgeon
#61. But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.
Walker Percy
#62. But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#63. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.
Ingvar Kamprad
#64. It's not that the people are bad but it's the situation which ruins the thoughts of the people. The situation where we forget what's right and what's wrong ... that's the moment where we do wrong which we realize long later ...
Debolina Bhawal
#65. Jacey, you try and see the good in everyone. That's your mistake. You think that if you look hard enough, you'll find it, that everyone has something in them that deserves you. But that's so fucking wrong. Very few people deserve you. And that includes me.
Courtney Cole
#66. SILENCE does not always mean 'NEUTRALITY'! Sometimes, it may mean 'consenting' to a wrong, sometimes it may mean 'condoning' a mistake and sometimes it may mean giving space to the wrong doer....SOMETIMES, we need to get up and FIGHT!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#67. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.
Lara Logan
#68. Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.
Chris Cleave
#69. I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.
Danielle Steel
#70. 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
#71. When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#72. Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing until he makes the right mistake. In other words he's optimistic he will create something good by virtue of getting something "wrong."
Mark Stevenson
#73. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
Larry Brilliant
#74. I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.
Sienna Miller
#75. Finn is God: So much for Earth Day. I totally screwed things up and started celebrating the wrong planet. Now I have to collect all these stupid trademarked dog figurines that I distributed all of the yard. At least it's better than last year's mistake when I had butt statues everywhere.
Jessica Park
#76. Entrusting your dreams or aspirations to the wrong person could be a critical mistake, lest they mistreat or neglect them. We are not nearly as careful with our dreams as we should be.
Ramani Durvasula
#77. You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.
Gerry Rafferty
#78. The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.
Donald Rumsfeld
#79. It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#80. There's nothing wrong with fear; the only mistake is to let it stop you in your tracks.
Twyla Tharp
#81. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.
Kevin Allen
#82. As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.
Channing Tatum
#83. Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.
Jane Fonda
#84. Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.
Confucius
#85. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Samuel Johnson
#86. Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.
H.L. Mencken
#87. How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
Caryl Chessman
#88. Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.
Timothy Leary
#89. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it's social death row. I'm the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking.
-Riley
Dawn Klehr
#90. There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
Agatha Christie
#91. I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'
Brooke Shields
#92. Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
Baldassare Castiglione
#93. One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say "I am right, but I may be wrong". Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
Thucydides
#95. It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
#96. If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. 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
#99. The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.
Bruce Springsteen
#100. While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.
John Cleese
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