Mistake Quotes
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Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.
Minna Antrim
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Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.
Jeffrey Skoll
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There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.
Tilda Swinton
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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.
Timothy Geithner
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You aren't going to be able to pass by going past the guy and keep going so it will take quite a while to set up a pass. I will follow him closely and wait for him to make a mistake before I can make the pass. I have a very good car for that. I will also be saving fuel and pick up positions in the pits so I have so many things on my side.
Helio Castroneves
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I threw a little bit hard and the throw was low. What can I say? It was a mistake.
Carlos Zambrano
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Whatever the reason is, or the truth is, I understand that everything is my mistake.
Jung Yong-hwa CNBLUE
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
Barack Obama
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I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
Barack Obama
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Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
Brian Tracy
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.
William Shakespeare
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I was going to call it a mistake, but you could argue that there are no mistakes in war, only fortunate and less fortunate events.
Alastair Reynolds
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Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
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Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.
C. S. Lewis
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Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
W. Edwards Deming
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
John Locke Nazareth
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Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
George Eliot
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Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
John Major
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Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway