Quotes About Mistake

Harper had fundamentally miscalculated in approaching Rockefeller for money.

In fact, the bargain had been Carnegie's belated attempt to redress his own error.

One mistake can cause everything or may I say someone special :-(

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn't define me.

So this is the manling," said Kaa. "Very soft is his skin, and he is not unlike the Bandar-log. Have a care, Manling, that I do not mistake thee for a monkey some twilight when I have newly changed my coat.

No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.

People didn't like [my persistent existence]. Because I should have died. Now that I've almost died, everybody loves me. . . . That was my mistake, back then. Not only did I live but I tried to live well. Bad mistake. Get fifteen stab wounds, much better.

Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences. While these states of mind are usually interpreted through the lens of one or another religious doctrine, we know that this is a mistake.

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

It [success] is really by mistake.

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

If there is a mistake, Monsieur Morrel,' the commissioner replied, 'you may be sure that it will soon be put right. In the meanwhile, I have a warrant here; and though I do it with regret, I must fulfil my duty.

Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

People think that the destructive theories that nowadays go by the name "socialism" are of recent origin. This is a mistake: these theories were contemporaneous with the first Economists. While they employed the all-powerful government of their dreams as an instrument to change the forms of society, socialists imagined seizing the same power to undermine its base.

In the main we deal in this life, he says, chiefly with probabilities, with difficult choices often having to do with lesser evils, with situations where one must weigh the pros and cons and often act without anything approaching certainty, but act one must, for it is better even to make a mistake than to hobble oneself permanently in indecision.