Mistake Quotes

5262 Mistake quotes by 3176 unique authors

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what… — Hiroko Sakai
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a… — E. W. Howe
You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission. — Edgar Bergen
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. — Ralph Marston
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of… — David Seabury
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options… — Garry Kasparov
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time. — Alex Ferguson
Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs. — Unknown Author
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake. — John Wooden
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This… — Orison Swett Marden
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the… — Elon Musk
I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our "friend." — Jack Handey
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too tight. You have to allow the head to breathe. — Jack Handey
During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were "just going down to the corner." — Jack Handey
I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he… — Jack Handey
When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He [Andy Roddick] doesn't make mistakes, only when he has to. — Unknown Author
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who… — Thomas Schelling
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only an error in judgment to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered — Christian Nestell Bovee
We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something — Mary Pickford

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