Mistake Quotes

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. (Theodore Roosevelt)
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. View quote
Walter Bagehot
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. View quote
Albert Einstein
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. View quote
Arthur Miller
Without music, life would be a mistake. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
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. View quote
Al Franken
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. (Douglas Adams)
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. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much. View quote
Joan Collins
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake. View quote
Akio Morita
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. View quote
Akio Morita
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. View quote
David Brin
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. (Oliver Cromwell)
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. View quote
Winston Churchill
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. View quote
Horatio Nelson
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. View quote
Albert Einstein
📖 Mistake Proverbs