Top 1200 Bad Mistake Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.

The secret of success lies in realising one's mistake, understanding where one went wrong and taking steps to rectify that mistake.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

The mistake that I made was that I was engaged in a consensual relationship with a woman who was not my wife. That is a mistake for which I am very sorry.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.

My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.

People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

If you regret a mistake, don't just make that mistake again. Look at it and learn from it and grow from it.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I have to really concentrate because of the language barrier.

I'm scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I'm just trying to figure out what the mistake is.

Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake; it's how it's meant to be.

After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

I made a record with my sister, which was a mistake. I didn't listen to that voice in my heart that said, 'This isn't right.' I went ahead and did it anyway. It was a mistake, and so it failed.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

Yeah, but a mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it.

When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.

Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

If you make a mistake, then you should own that mistake.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

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 sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

When there is a mistake in the game, or even half a mistake, I think I'm quite smart enough to know that I could have, and should have, done better in the situation.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!