Quotes About Mistake

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

A good man who did a bad thing.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

I could have found a dry place in the trees, but I was running and fell into a hole." The old man winked at the stranger and chuckled. "From the looks of it, the ground flew up and hit you in the face.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Adherence to Joseph E. Johnston would be Jefferson Davis' greatest mistake of 1862-1863 and one of his greatest of the war.

Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Siraj's most serious error was to alienate the great bankers of Bengal, the Jagat Seths. The Seths' machinations had brought Aliverdi to power, and anyone who wanted to operate in the region did well to cultivate their favour; but Siraj did the opposite to the two men of the family

I was sorry to read in yesterday's evening papers that your house was recently burglarised while you were elsewhere propounding the moral virtues of private enterprise. I'm sure you'll be able to see the funny side of it! I expect your mistake was to inform the robbery squad at your local police station that your house would be empty. That's always asking for trouble.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

For anyone wishing to argue that once things were worse than they are now, the Middle Ages are ideal. It is widely supposed that having gotten out of them was one of the accomplishments of modern civilization. No contemporary scholar, one might think, would make such a mistake in judgment. A one-man multitude, Pinker champions the case to the contrary. "The people of the middle ages were, in a word, gross."31