Mistake Quotes

Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of "1" for the second "h" in the word "hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of misshapen or illicitly connected words, puns, logogriphs, and so on, had helped the poor crank to pursue a quest that in the light of the example she cited struck me as statistically insane. ("The Vane Sisters")

Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

Carefully guard your true self. Let no mistake or error you commit create doubt in you and who you truly are.

Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there.

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

A mistake is a stepping stone to success

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

The slinky and post-it notes are both products that came from mistakes. Don’t forget that mishaps can be turned into triumphs.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

I squeezed my eyes shut and took several deep breaths, trying not to smell Jace in front of me, not to taste him on my lips. But it was useless. In that moment, Jace was everywhere. He was in my mind, he was in my heart, and he was in my memory. He smelled good. He tasted good. And the blissful aftershock still throbbing in my most sensitive places felt wonderful, when everything else in my life was an obstacle to be overcome.

O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.

Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.

Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end.

Without failure, there is no success.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

Errors were not only meant to be committed by fools.

Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.

If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it’s just their behavior.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places.

For how long is there a superior? For as long as one makes mistakes. When mistakes cease to happen, there will be no superior thereafter.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

Don’t forgive people until they understand their mistakes.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

From mistakes you get experience, from experiments you get again expirience and there are a lot of out there positive and negative stuff which if you done you get experience. And that' experience is like in the games you are better and you are skilled person... So what would you do know? Choose experience or not?

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

Any mistake in life is likely to show its ill effect one day.