mistake quotes

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

— Dale Carnegie

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. ”

— Phyllis Diller

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Trying to convince myself I’ve found one. Making the mistake I never learned from.”

“I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically. ”

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. ”

“The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test. ”

— George Washington Bush

“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ”

“Never mistake motion for action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.”

— Kim Kardashian

“I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!”

— Kim Kardashian

“I've made mistakes in my life for sure.”

— Kim Kardashian

“It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.”

— Stanley Kubrick

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.”

— Steve Martin

“I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.”

— Barack Obama

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

— Barack Obama

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

— Barack Obama

“Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.”

— Barack Obama

“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.”

— Joel Osteen

“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.”

— Joel Osteen

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.”

— Mitt Romney

“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.”

— Henry Rollins

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

— Rene Descartes

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