Top 1200 Regret And Mistake Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

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

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

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

My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

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

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

I don't regret speaking out, but I regret the way I went about it, so put it that way, yes.

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

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.

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

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.

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

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.

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.

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.

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 you were a Democrat getting ready to run for office in the 2000s, as I was, you were told to stay clear of guns... I really regret that. I regret having listened to that advice.

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.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

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

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

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.

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

People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls.

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 regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

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

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