Mistake Quotes · Page 125

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into…

— Stephen Covey

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and…

— Otto von Bismarck

Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But no - do I? am I an addict? - No. Yes, I've made mistakes. All…

— Rob Ford

Don't be afraid to take bad pictures, because good pictures are the mistakes of bad pictures.

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

I'm happy with the way everything turned out. Even the mistakes we've made I wouldn't take back because they ended up yielding…

— Jeff Rosenstock

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

— Eric Church

The biggest mistake of my life is that I said yes, when I had to say no.

— Anonymous

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

— John Mayer

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in…

— Bruce Lee

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not…

— Linus Torvalds

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to…

— Christopher Hitchens

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always…

— Cyril Connolly

I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected…

— Robert Kennedy

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round.…

— Walter Hagen

I could take the greatest deal-makers of all time and they've always had something that didn't quite work out. You never want…

— Donald Trump

I love the process of cutting everything out with a scalpel yourself: I don't want to have my stencils drawn up in…

— Ben Eine

The left portray Donald Trump as somebody that's a walking mental midget, that literally has no idea what he's done here by…

— Rush Limbaugh

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to…

— Bill Watterson

We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't…

— Hillary Clinton

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I…

— Carrie Underwood

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes.…

— Olivia Wilde

There's a huge amount of pressure on every astronaut, because when you get right down to it, the experiments that are conducted…

— Sally Ride

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

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

— Fahadh Faasil

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

— John Prine

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

— Anonymous

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

— David Trimble

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

— Woody Allen

When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.

— Wong Shun Leung

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

— Scott D. Anthony

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

— Holly Near

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When we grow up we all will understand that we have made mistakes which we are not proud of, but some of…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

— Walter J. Phillips

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

— Carrie Fisher