Mistake Quotes

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

If I even lose my glasses or make a mistake. I become really disappointed in myself.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Never mistake motion for action.

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

It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

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.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

I made a big mistake of my life.

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

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

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

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

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

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

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

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.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

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