Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. — John Spence
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals — Lev Grossman
They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight. — Unknown Author
The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held… — Macklemore
I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look… — Pete Rose
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. — George Bernard Shaw
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black… — Jackie Robinson
I made mistakes. I can’t whine about it. I’m the one that messed up and I’m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a… — Pete Rose
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process. — Martin McGuinness
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — Benjamin Franklin
The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an… — Lincoln Steffens
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold… — Otto von Bismarck
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider… — Rudolf Dreikurs
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… — Thucydides
In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I… — Pete Sampras
If you get operated, something can go wrong and you can just say bye-bye to tennis. That's what happened to a lot of soccer players… — Marat Safin
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous… — Ronald Reagan
I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has… — Dan Quayle
I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the… — Wesley Clark
If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about… — Eric Church
Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew,… — Olaf Stapledon

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