Quotes on Mistake

The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

Author: Dean Acheson

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.

Author: Dean Acheson

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Author: Douglas Adams

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.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

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

Author: Fred Allen

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.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Author: Idi Amin

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

Author: Walter Annenberg

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

Author: Fiona Apple

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

Author: Alexis Arguello

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Author: Dick Armey

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.

Author: W. Auden

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.

Author: W. Auden

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Author: Walter Bagehot

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Author: Daisy Bates

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

Author: Orlando Battista

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

Author: Gary Bauer

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

Author: Warren Beatty

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

Author: Clive Bell

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

Author: James Bennett

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?

Author: Tom Berenger

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

Author: Brian Boitano

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Author: Nelson Boswell

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

Author: Phyllis Bottome

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Author: Christian Bovee

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

Author: Ben Bradlee

It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

Author: Breyten Breytenbach

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

Author: Sherrod Brown

Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments.

Author: Tina Brown

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Author: Pearl Buck

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Author: Anthony Burgess

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Author: Edmund Burke

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Author: George Bush

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Author: Judith Butler

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Author: Samuel Butler

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

Author: Samuel Butler

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

Author: Miguel Cabrera

Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.

Author: Lois Capps

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

Author: Gary Cherone

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Author: Michael Chertoff

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

Author: Lydia Child

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Author: Joan Collins

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Author: Bill Cosby

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

Author: Hansie Cronje

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

Author: George Crook

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

Author: Richard Curtis

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

Author: Al D'Amato

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Author: Alvin Dark

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Author: Tom Daschle

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Author: Rene Descartes

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Author: Janice Dickinson

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

Author: Ani DiFranco

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.

Author: Phyllis Diller

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.

Author: John Dingell

Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.

Author: Lexa Doig

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

Author: John Doolittle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Author: Arthur Doyle

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

Author: Peter Drucker

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Author: Bob Dylan

But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Author: Meister Eckhart

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Author: Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Author: Albert Einstein

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

Author: Ben Elton

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

Author: Ralph Emerson

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

Author: Sarah Ferguson

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.

Author: Geraldine Ferraro

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

Author: Bryan Ferry

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

Author: Neil Finn

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

Author: Bridget Fonda

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Author: Steve Forbes

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

Author: Henry Ford

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

Author: Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Author: Sigmund Freud

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Author: Robert Fripp

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Author: Robert Fripp

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

Author: John Frusciante

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

Author: R. Fuller

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Author: Ava Gardner

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

Author: Timothy Geithner

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

Author: Edward Gibbon

We had to support our player and genuinely felt, like Rio has said, that it was an honest mistake. It is important to know that Manchester United never said, and Rio Ferdinand never said, that a mistake hadn't been made.

Author: David Gill

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.

Author: David Gill

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

Author: Vince Gill

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

Author: Rob Glaser

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Author: Katharine Graham

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

You make a mistake, you keep going.

Author: Linda Gray

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

Author: Kenny Guinn

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Author: G. Gurdjieff

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

Author: Robert Half

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

Author: Alexander Hamilton

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Author: Garrett Hardin

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

Author: Ben Harper

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

Author: Stephen Harper

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.

Author: Gregory Harrison

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

Author: John Hawkes

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

Author: Patty Hearst

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

Author: William Hearst

Never mistake motion for action.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

Author: Evander Holyfield

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.

Author: Peter Hook

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.

Author: Peter Hook

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Author: Vladimir Horowitz

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

Author: Vladimir Horowitz

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.

Author: Terrence Howard

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

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

Author: David Irving

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.

Author: Jim Jeffords

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

Author: Tahar Jelloun

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Author: Samuel Johnson

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Author: Angelina Jolie

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Author: Barbara Jordan

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

Author: Chief Joseph

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

Author: Pauline Kael

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

Author: Christine Keeler

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Author: Edward Kennedy

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Author: Henry Kissinger

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

Author: Jurgen Klinsmann

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Author: Fletcher Knebel

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

Author: Peter Krause

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Author: Lisa Kudrow

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Author: Shia LaBeouf

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

Author: Frank Lampard

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

Author: Walter Lang

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Author: Ring Lardner

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Author: Doug Larson

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Author: Joe Lewis

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

Author: Alphonsus Liguori

It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

Author: Donal Logue

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

Author: Augustus Longstreet

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

Author: Sophia Loren

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

Author: Lawrence Lovasik

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

Author: Loretta Lynn

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

Author: John Major

Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake.

Author: Dorothy Malone

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Author: John Maxwell

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Author: William Mayo

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

Author: Bryant McGill

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Author: Bryant McGill

I knew I wanted to play "Dr Cox" really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

Author: John McGinley

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Author: Peter McWilliams