Mistake Quotes - Page 142

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Many good people mistake their reputation for their character. It is a mistake I have made many, many times.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

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

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

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.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.