Mistake Quotes

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.