Quotes on Mistake

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

The best single question for testing an organization's character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes.

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

I know that the precise magnitude and patterns of climate change cannot be fully predicted. But global warming clearly is a growing, long-term threat with profound consequences. And make no mistake about it, it will take decades to reverse.

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

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

The main thing is to be yourself. Many times its through a mistake that you learn. And the main thing is to make sure you learn through your mistakes and get better.