Quotation Explorer - 'Mistake'

When you make a mistake; admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.
There's no such thing as a mistake. There are only experiences. Some are good, and some are bad. Either way, it is an experience we learn from. - Jenna Alatari
You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself. - Lacey Sturm
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. - Confucius
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Quotes are made we to think, we have made a mistake so quotes will put us in the right way? (But can we understand them - is the best question) - Deyth Banger
There is always a comma to check whether are we going to do the same mistake which we have done before?" But proble is that we never use this comma. - Vaibhav Soni
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. - Janet Frame
It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead! - Deyth Banger
I am scared like you all people, that tomorrow I will be examined, that there is chance to get something bad as a result, that I will mistake in saying a word aloud or something more worst than this... - Deyth Banger
Human beings don’t necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.It’s a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves. - Mohsin Hamid
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. - George F. Will
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. - Benjamin Franklin
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake - Meg Whitman
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. - Woodrow Wilson
Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden. - Anna Jae
Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made. - Steven Magee
You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choice. - Steven Denn
Life without music would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake. - Augustus De Morgan
Find the truth and forget the mistake. - Debasish Mridha
Apologize on you mistake in time-may you never get time again... - Debolina Bhawal
Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance. - Habeeb Akande
The greatest mistake is trying to be m ore agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. - René Descartes
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. - Jeremy Taylor
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. - Charles W. Colson
For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory. - Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless - Isha Karki
Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What a major mistake, having rejected pretty much all of the great talented female artists that have lived throughout the ages, art history is left incomplete. The validity of the written art history is as absent as those women left out. - Siren Waroe
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
He who joyfully marches 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
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. - C. S. Lewis
The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person. - MaryElizabeth Williams
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. - Lester Bangs
Today I will masterbate!Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to! - Al Franken
When I make a mistake, all I need from you is correction. Some more advice won't hurt. Judge not. - DaVyshka
Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. - Thomas H. Huxley
In the art and act of mastering, a mistake is a common thing, but it must always shape something and it must always give a distinctive reason for action! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books... - Deyth Banger
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles
You are a foreigner in an actual world, a human co-worker, a truth, a divine word, and a perfect mistake. - Michael Bassey Johnson
INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God." - Ambrose Bierce
Woman was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. - Frank Wilczek
A mistake from a good person always gets treated as crime. - Pratik Akkawar
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. - Brian Tracy
For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns. - Neeraj Bhanot
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? - John Kerry
The best don't start at the top; embrace every struggle, mistake, and obstacle you overcame to get there! Persistence and Faith = Success - Zoe Woods
With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again. - Tori Spelling
The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination. - Andrew McEwan
People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have gray fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
Never let a mistake hold you back take it ,reframe it and use the lesson to succeed-~ - Bluenscottish
I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make. - Joe Hill
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Evan Esar
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. - Ann Richards
Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, belief, and sexuality but also of age and experience. The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. - Andrew Solomon
[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse. - Ward Cleaver
Don't mistake activity with achievement. - John Wooden
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'. - John Ashcroft
You've broke me so many times, that putting myself back together, isn't the hard part anymore. I can do it with my eyes closed. The hardest part is watching you dangle from your own eyelids, trying to escape the mistake of planting me there.When I bloomed you left, like a cold wind. - Amber Dawn H.
He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)! - Dada Bhagwa
Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use. - Richard Diaz
Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.Never betray old friends for new ones.Never mistake flattery for praise.Never rely on dishonorable people.Never trust your enemy's friends.Never mistake someone’s kindness for weakness. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Truly Falling In Love With you is not one of the greatest mistake of my Life but Trusting you madly is one of the biggest mistake of my life ever . :( - Kashi khan
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. - Confucius
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. - Thomas Szasz
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. - Pearl Buck
You have made a mistake, well good, good this shows that you have to learn a lesson... I have also made a mistake, she also has made a mistake, all have made mistake, that's life. That's how everything works! - Deyth Banger
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - Henry Ford
If you hold back for fear of making a mistake you will never accomplish what you must.And with each challenge you will become stronger. - Kate Constable the Tenth Power
pause, ponder,consult, think through it well, understand the consequence, know the benefit and take a second look at it again for it takes a little mistake to cause a big had I know with a deep regret - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake. - Bob Hudson
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips. - Cynthia Ozick
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness. - John Green
If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake! - Dada Bhagwan
A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride. - Newton Gatambia
Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ....but Relation is a book of dictionary -----So don't lose a full Book for a single page. - Rubeccapalm Rose
I know the scent of betrayal. I may be kind to you, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness. After all, the Angels have a sharp sword too - Joshua De Vera Bautista
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick
Never mistake legibility for communication. - David Carson
It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere. - Steve Goodier
Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness. - Orrin Woodward
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn’t my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face. - Naveed baji
I do not judge a person by their mistakes nor their failures. I judge a person by what they have learned. Because it's those failures that they learn from. A person who has never made a mistake nor failed at anything has never learned. By - Bonnie Zackson Koury
Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time. - J.R. Rim
Sometimes we may trying to correct a mistake by another mistake so that we should be wise - Maryam Rahmouni
Blaming someone for their mistake seem to be unkind, corrections could have be favoured. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
A mistake may mark a man, but admiting a mistake is the mark of a man.
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make - Antony Beevor
Until you get it that in reality you, and the enemy you hate, are identically and inseparably 'One', of a single make, you're one big silly mistake. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Never mistake arrogance for intellect. - D.B. Harrop
With every mistake, we must surely be learning. - George Harrison
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places. - Shannon L. Alder
Mistakes are a part of being human. 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
The friends who met here and embraced are gone,Each to his own mistake; - W.H. Auden
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making - Reba McEntire
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
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. - Dan Quayle
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. - Barbara Hall
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson
It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage. - Mansi Soni
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. - Isocrates
If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake! - Anuradha Bhattacharyya
I've got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I'm gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them PUNISHED with a baby. - Barack Obama
There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else. - Ralph Steadman
A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place. - Anthony T. Hincks
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. - Amit Kalantri
Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.
Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. - Kin Hubbard
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. - Plato
Damage control is part of life. It would be better to never make a mistake, but once it's made it's best to handle it with grace and humility. Sometimes that shows others more than our failures ever could. - Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that. - David W. Earle
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? - John F. Kerry
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. - Cicero
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hope is a mistake. If you cant fix what's broken, you will go insane. - Mad Max Fury Road
When expecting from your dear ones is a mistake, telling them not to expect is a blunder! - Aanu
You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sending everything they touch to the grave is what they do, but they don't see it as a grave mistake, yet. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names as words have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them. - Roselynn Cannes, Fallen
The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time. - J.R. Rim
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. - Robert Jordan
I don't like to say I'm happy. The Universe always finds out and corrects its mistake. - David Willis
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. - W. Somerset Maugham
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. - Abraham Lincoln
An employee made a mistake that cost the company $10 million, he walked into the office of Tom Watson, the C.E.O., expecting to get fired. Fire you? Mr. Watson asked. I just spent $10 million educating you. - Adam Grant
Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone. - Debasish Mridha
The biggest mistake is trusting the wrong people who generally are also the dumbest. - Marino Baccarini
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. - Steve Martin
Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. - Ellen Raskin
Don't cling to a mistake, just because you spent so much time making it. - Anon.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke
I'll never make the mistake of turning seventy again. - Casey Stengel
People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.] - Mo Willems
a friend is someone who, when you make a mistake reminds you that you will, forever after,be a kinder person because of it... - Kate Mullane Robertson
Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end. - Deyth Banger
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Evan Esar
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White
Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...? - Hiroko Sakai
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. - Ring Lardner
It’d be a mistake, Lee said. I think maybe you have to make a few, Merrin said. If you don’t, you’re probably thinking too much. That’s the worst mistake you can make. - Joe Hill
Without love, life will be a great mistake. - Debasish Mridha
At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Make up for every mistake you make in life. Some of us humans tend to learn from our mistakes and others tend to make the same false mistakes." - Sage Canny
You are a bit like that painting, Minnow. Remember how lovingly and carefully formed you are. Your thoughts, your talents, your memories, your mistakes.... they all make the complete canvas of you. Even though others may mistake your worth, you must never value yourself any less. - Michelle Marcos
Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again. - Saleem Durrani
Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it.
Maybe they want us to feel uneasy. Maybe they think we’ll make a mistake if they’re constantly breathing down our necks.’ I shivered violently, as if I really could feel the hot, hungry breath of evil intentions panting just behind me. - Rosie Pugh
Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity. - Santosh Kalwar
GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy! - Deyth Banger
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned - Alicia Keys
some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Stories...tragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us . - Upasana Banerjee
I am soft and kind hearted. Sadly people mistake that for weakness. But I’d rather be weak thank ugly hearted. - Zane Baker
People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is. - Chris Hankin
The easiest mistake to make is to lose sight of your goal. Failure is temporary, but quitting is permanent. Choose wisely. - Kevin J. Donaldson
There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis. - Os Guinness
Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. - Denis Waitley
The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking. - Loren Weisman
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. - Bryant McGill
Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment. - Núria Añó
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. - Anton Chekhov
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
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. - William S. Burroughs
Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire. It is a mark of folly to make the same mistake twice. - karan godara
Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself. - Paul Gitwaza
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. - George Bernard Shaw
You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the thought up entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you. - Enza Vita
Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life - Arshdeep Singh Samrala
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake - Albert Einstein
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. - Milan Kundera
The best things in life are the things you do by mistake. - Monika Zands
Don't try to create the world in your image-that was God's mistake. - Marty Rubin
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters. - A.E. Samaan
Every life is a story. Every story has mistakes. If you focus too much on the mistakes, you will miss the story. In doing that, you are making a dreadful mistake yourself. Sometimes, it is the mistakes that enrich and give the story so much more meaning than it would have had otherwise. - Beverly S. Harless
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. - Herbert V. Prochnow
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make. - Corita Kent
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. - Khaled Hosseini
Learning from your mistake is good, but learning from others mistake is better. - Japson
if you did not make a mistake, then you have not try anything new, then you did not live at all. - ali almajid
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? - Henry James
Did you make a mistake today? Did you do or say something that you’re ashamed of? Congratulations. You are officially human. Love yourself, especially when you’re aching with shame or regret. Make your amends, learn the lesson, and love your wondrous human self. - Margaret Moss Painter
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours. - Umair Haque
The biggest mistake brands make are trying to sell their stuff rather than clarifying what people are actually buying. - David Brier
Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you make a mistake, understand it not as a mistake but as a lesson. This however, is if and only if you have learned something from it. - HENRY E. REYNOSO
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. - Fred Allen
If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough. - Albert Einstein
The biggest mistake that I see people with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) making is believing that all electromagnetic fields are harmful. - Steven Magee
A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return. - Daniel Willey
A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option. - Justin David Nevins
I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing. - Richard Feynman
Life without Music would be a Mistake. Life without Books would be Catastrophic! - Nandini Deka
Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? - Henry James
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? - Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone make mistakes and you learn a lesson from them. But, sometimes just one mistake made in influence of something can ruins your whole life. - Sammy Toora
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness! - C. JoyBell C.
A mistake is the most beautiful thing in the world.It is the only way you can get to some place you’venever been before. I try to make as many as I can.Making a mistake is the only way that you cangrow. - E.W. Wainwright
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. - Judith Martin
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
If you give love , you get love.But there is a mistake in that sentence.If you give love , you may or may not get love.Now that's correct. - Akash B Chandran
There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance... People who survive through the tears... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them. - Steve Maraboli
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. - Isocrates
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent. - Nike Thaddeus
There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together. - Kin Hubbard
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God. - Denis Diderot
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it. - Paul "Bear" Bryant
One mistake cannot justify another. - Raheel Farooq
Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?" 'No, sir.' "Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Grand Admiral Thrawn
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. - Erik Erikson
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
Never let the little things, disrupt the biggest things you cherish in life. The smallest mistake, can cause the biggest regret and hurt to your closest companion. - Unarine Ramaru
And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth? - Morrissey
You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love. - Shannon L. Alder
every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears - Kami Garcia
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. - Doug Larson
I was just sitting and just realised how much she loved meThe least I should have done was fight for her, for our winThis is a great mistake about love but I have learnt from itHeart break sucks but it eventually gives you much to eat - D WordSmith
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. - Malcolm Forbes
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. - Peter McWilliams
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention. - Brian Eno
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. - Miguel Ruiz
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. - Elbert Hubbard
A mistake of one man is not the mistake of mankind. - Kim Panti
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoléon Bonaparte
the biggest mistake i have done is to trust YOU... - A2KDON
The one who realizes the mistake, seeks forgiveness and searches for kindness, must be forgiven. - M.F. Moonzajer
Being giving is a big quality. Being too giving is a big mistake! - Rossana Condoleo
You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story. - Sara Sheridan
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest. - Steven Magee
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it. - Lemmy Kilmister
Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life. - Katie Couric
The sooner, the better; it’s for a man to understand that a woman often can’t and at times doesn’t want to realize her mistake, so it is senseless to expect from her to apologize first ever to him. - Anuj Somany
When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it today. - Julieanne O'Conner
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? - Friedrich Nietzsche
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. - A.A. Milne
Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United States, back before the Disunion, always met sober, and look at what had come of that. - John C. Wright
You cannot mistake thisYou cannot reinvent this moment You cannot call this loveIt is so much more - Coco J. Ginger
A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound. - George Gordon Byron
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death! - Eugene O'Neill
Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out. - Shannon L. Alder
The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. - Chuck Palahniuk
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. - Ann Richards
The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly. - Himmilicious
A step ahead means a risk ahead... Count your steps before a mistake is made.. - Debolina Bhawal
I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a mistake never made any discovery - Bernard Kelvin Clive
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
Strategy is different from other things in that if your mistake the Way (of strategy), even a little, you will become bewildered and fall into bad ways.
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. - William Allen White
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don't mistake it for more or its beauty may be lost. - Danielle Pierre
Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson - Ashfaq Ahmed
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. - George Sand
BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy. - Ambrose Bierce
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. - Katharine Graham
You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens. - Angelina Jolie
You are never a failure when you learn from a mistake and try again ~ - Levon Poe
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake. - Unknown
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. - Sharon Salzberg
Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make. - Colleen Houck
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy. - E.M. Forster
Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape. - Darnell Lamont Walker
We mistake our mistakes as being damaged. - Taylor Swift
He was the monster that no one thought to look for in the light of day. It was a common mistake. People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety - like light - is a facade. Underneath, the whole world is drenched in darkness. - C.J. Roberts
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. - Jules Feiffer
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. - Sigmund Freud
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. - Unknown
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. - Bernard M. Baruch
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much. - Joan Collins
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. - C.S. Lewis
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. - Fred Allen
Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there. - Kamand Kojouri
Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is you are a warrior! - Bryant McGill
Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. - Kurt Vonnegut
Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake. - Shannon L. Alder
Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. - Emmett F. Fields
Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason! - Thiruman Archunan
You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels. - Calvin Vronsky, The Gambit
Invisible God might have apprehension at the time of world creation that if HE does not show deception often through women, then men may mistake HIS made hell on earth as heaven. - Anuj Somany
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. - Plato
No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. - Shannon L. Alder
Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results. - Orrin Woodward
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke
Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd? - Deyth Banger
Stay close 2 those who sing, tell stories, and enjoy life, and those eyes sparkle wiz happiness is contagious and will always manage 2 find a solution, whereas logic can find only an explanation 4 the mistake made." me!! ;) - Paulo Coelho
He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretched strand of hope, and nicked the strand of life by mistake. He did it with his hands. - Hubert Martin
If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo
And one bad mistake which is called love..Can drive you insane till rapture.. - shady_N
Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won't meet. Breaking the broom isn't a must. Don't mistake unmoved dreams for dust - Isaiah J. Lawrence
Everything on earth has a purpose to fulfill, though it may look worthless, but time will tell if god did a mistake in creating them. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. - Anonymous
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