Mistake Quotes

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

And that's the mistake that was made with Steel Pier. Roger was caught between a rock and hard place. It would have cost a couple of million dollars more to take it to Boston or someplace first. So we opened about a month too early.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

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 to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.