Mistake Quotes

• George W. Bush was a very bad president. The Iraq war was a big mistake. The U.S.A. needed a political change. I hoped Barack Obama could be a good president, but I'm disappointed. He hasn't done well.

  

  Marc Rich
  • Good
  • Done
  • War

• 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.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Alone

• In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn't matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Done
  • Coaching

• If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a very long time.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fashion

• 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
  • High
  • Mistake

• It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Work
  • Style
  • Mistake

• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  

  Al Franken
  • Life
  • Mistake

• I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you're a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, 'Don't do that!' when you make a mistake.

  

  David Seltzer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I've looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cool

• You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

  

  Gene Sperling
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

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

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Nobody

• Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Mistake
  • Generation
  • Thinks

• One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.

  

  Curt Coffman
  • People
  • Focus
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sexy

• Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

  

  W. Brett Wilson
  • Learning
  • Failing
  • Learning From Mistakes

• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • God
  • Strong
  • Lost

• A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.

  

  Arturo O'Farrill
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Identity

• We have basically been just trying to calm people down, let them know, once again. this is another kind of mistake made either by the federal government or the insurance companies or both.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • People
  • Trying
  • Government

• The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Heaven
  • Mistake
  • Lord

• When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Bad
  • Mistake

• We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• It's a mistake to try to use play to deliberately foster developmental progress.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Mistake
  • Progress

• I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Mistake
  • Forgive Me

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

  

  Valentine de Saint-Point
  • Women
  • Political
  • Valentine's Day

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