Mistake Quotes

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

~ Rafael Palmeiro

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

~ Bob Iger

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

~ Edward Gibbon

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

~ Shimon Peres

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

~ Walter Cronkite

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

~ Harlan Coben

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

~ James Altucher

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.

~ B. F. Skinner

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

~ Robert Fripp

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

~ Bob Woodward

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

~ Samuel Smiles

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

~ Mother Teresa

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~ Anne Sullivan

You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

~ Amy Chua

A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.

~ Luke Evans

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.

~ Victoria Pendleton

GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

~ Jack Dangermond

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

~ Wietse Venema

Never mistake motion for action.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

~ Kevin Brownlow

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

~ Mercy Otis Warren

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Man is nature's sole mistake.

~ William Gilbert

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.

~ W. H. Auden

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

~ George Eliot

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

~ Margaret Atwood

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

~ Gal Gadot

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

~ William E. Gladstone

A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

~ Gavin Newsom

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

~ Yusuf Hamied

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

~ Josh Homme

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

~ Albert Einstein

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.

~ Neil Young

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

~ Mika Brzezinski

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

~ E. Stanley Jones

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

~ Hugh Dancy

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

~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

~ Nash Grier

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

~ David Blunkett

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.

~ Peter L. Berger