Mistake Quotes · Page 127

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

— Saul Bellow

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.—George Bernard Shaw.”

— Anonymous

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

— Walter Annenberg

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

— Kin Hubbard

My mistake was expecting so much out of someone who's not that person I thought they was.

— Anonymous

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

— Paulo Coelho

“About last night…” For some reason, I held out for the miracle of her saying she didn’t regret it. “It was a…

— Stella Rhys

I think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the…

— John Fund

If a girl understands your BS, sticks with you through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for her, it's obvious…

— Lil Wayne

Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to…

— Ernie J Zelinski

I think it's a mistake to downgrade and say surveillance is no big deal. It is a huge deal that we are…

— Rand Paul

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else…

— Chris Christie

There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a…

— George Eliot

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is…

— John Wooden

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make…

— Raj Patel

In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away…

— Bart D. Ehrman

On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In…

— Denis Fahey

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short…

— Anne Lamott

The Sunni Arabs began to realize that they had made a huge mistake by not voting in the election of 2005 and…

— David Petraeus

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,…

— Alan Keightley

I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa…

— George W. Bush

I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the…

— Chris Cain

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

— Juliet Marillier

You've got to accept where mistakes will happen, and it's about not making the next one.

— Jordan Pickford

“A lifetime of doing the right thing could be completely obliterated by one lapse in judgment. One mistake.”

— Melinda Leigh

You can never make the same mistake twice. The second time you make it, it's no longer a mistake. It's a choice.

— Lauren Conrad

“Everybody learns from their own mistakes. The wise learn from mistakes others make.”

— Manoj Vaz

Life is not about dwelling on regrets and a bunch of what if's. It's about moving forward and learning from our mistakes.

— Don Kel

the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance

— Helen Rowland

“YOU WERE A MISTAKE!! Oh, crap, I just realized thats an awful thing to say...”

— Sir Awesome

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

— Gabriel Campisi

Learn from your mistakes. the only things that need to be practiced in repetition should be of self-beneficial or humanitarian purpose.

— Anonymous

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't…

— Harold Ramis

“Learning from other people's mistakes will avoid having to learn from your own”

— Geoffroy Birtz

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

— Joe Torre

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness…

— Rachel Joyce