Mistake Quotes
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Cato the Elder
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We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
Wolfgang Puck
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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
Stephen Fry
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It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
Gilbert Arenas
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If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.
Miguel Cabrera
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Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.
Michael Jackson
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
William Rosenberg
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Richard Feynman
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I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.
Lord Byron
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The first mistake belonging to business is the going into it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
William Feather
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I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.
Emanuel Lasker
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I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.
Sandra Bullock
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Stephen Covey
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I am human and I make mistakes.
Cat Power
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Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.
Charles Sheehan-Miles
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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
Marcel Proust
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I'm the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
Georges St-Pierre
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It all comes down to our big guys. Right now, we need more from certain guys. When things are going bad every mistake ends up in your net.
Bob Hartley
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The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
Andreï Makine
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The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there are too many conflicting interests that are competing to impede. The second is mistaking incubation for transformation and concluding that failure to achieve escape velocity is due to lack of innovation. It never is. It is always do to lack of leadership focus and, especially, fortitude.
Geoffrey Moore
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
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In testing, you make a mistake, you just say 'OK we'll have another go' instead of it being the only chance you get.
Lando Norris