Mistake Quotes

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just gotta make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

The biggest mistake Yoko and I made... was allowing ourselves to become influenced by the male-macho 'serious revolutionaries,' and their insane ideas about killing people to save them from capitalism and/or communism (depending on your point of view). We should have stuck to our own way of working for peace: bed-ins, billboards, etc.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

He who joyfully marches to music 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.