Top 1200 Mistake Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

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

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.

They made a mistake. And it was an easy mistake to make. I don't regard setting incentives aggressively as a mistake. I think the mistake was, when the bad news came, they didn't recognize it directly. I don't think that impairs the future of Wells Fargo. They'll be better for it.

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

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

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.

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.

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

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

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

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

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?

Make no mistake: this is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare, make no mistake about it. Make no mistake.

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

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.

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

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

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

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.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

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 a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don't want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.

The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy.

A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.

America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

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

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

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

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

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

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

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

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

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

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

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