Mistake Quotes

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

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

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.