Mistake Quotes
5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice…
— Charles Baxter
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We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to…
— Robert E. Lee
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A lot of good things in my life came form half of my mistakes.
— Unknown Author
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You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
— William Shawcross
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Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that…
— Unknown Author
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When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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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
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The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
— William Ralph Inge
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I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
— John Dingell
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
— Ayn Rand
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients
— Carl Levin
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All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think they are reality. That is a mistake.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I…
— Pema Chodron
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Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.
— Henry Ford
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the…
— Peter Drucker
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
— Johan Cruijff
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The more time you have, the more mistakes you will make.
— Ruud Gullit
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Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to…
— Joseph Goebbels
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I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
— Phil Rizzuto
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The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,
— Unknown Author
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Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.
— Kevin Keegan
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My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.
— Diego Maradona
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