Mistake Quotes

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

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

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.