Mistake Quotes · Page 107

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of…

— Otto von Bismarck

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

— Pharrell Williams

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

— Mitt Romney

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

— Harry S. Truman

I always push forward. It doesn't mean that I'll be perfect. I make mistakes -- but I learn from my mistakes, and…

— Elvis Stojko

That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.

— Naomi Klein

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do…

— Anonymous

“And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than…

— Louis L'Amour

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in…

— Albert Einstein

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things:…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't…

— Timothy Leary

I like relaxed sets. I like to feel that I can make a mistake without feeling like I'm costing somebody money. I…

— Richard Jenkins

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about…

— Carine Roitfeld

I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the…

— Steven Moffat

The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the…

— John Grisham

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war:…

— George Packer

I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our…

— Alber Elbaz

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge.…

— Chris Hedges

Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt…

— Edward Feser

What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.…

— Charles Baxter

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late…

— Kathy Ireland

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

— Bjork

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to…

— John C. Maxwell

First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's…

— Anonymous

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

— Michael Ondaatje

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of…

— Napoleon Hill

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

— Robert Kiyosaki

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman…

— Trey Songz

I got an offer from Paris Saint-Germain, who wanted me, but I said no out of love for Tottenham. Maybe that was…

— Andre Villas-Boas

You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it,…

— Jean-Sebastien Giguere

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.

— Susanna Tamaro

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get…

— LeToya Luckett

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same…

— Adrienne Bailon

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

— Sun Tzu