Mistake Quotes - Page 15

• I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

  Kim Wilde

  Numbers, America, Would Be

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Athlete, Kids, Thinking

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Errors, Indulge In

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Janet's Repentance' ch. 25

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• Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Vanity, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.99

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• Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Adversity

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• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Commitment, Heaven, Saint

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• I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

  Richard Bacon

  Regret, Stupid, Silly

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• Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

  Al D'Amato

  Regret, Making Mistakes, Allies

  "More Americans: Iraq Worth Going to War". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, False Hope, Swept Away

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilisation and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Agitation, Answers

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Giving Up

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1938, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Dreams are a sweet mistake
  All dreamers must awake
  On, then, with the dance
  No backward glance
  Or my heart will break
  Never look back.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Dream, Sweet, Heart

  "Song: 'One More Kiss'". 1987.

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• Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

  Robert Breault

  Time, Tragedy, Ends

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• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Carolyn Wells

  Moments, Blunders, Wrong Time

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Ifs

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• Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.

  Joe Budden

  Rap, Fate, Destiny

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• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

  Russell Simmons

  Heart, Racism, Prejudice

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism", www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

  Donald Sterling

  Racism, Racist, Made

  "Donald Sterling tells Anderson Cooper: I was 'baited' into 'a terrible mistake'". Article by Ismael Estrada and Catherine E. Shoichet, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2014.

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• You made one mistake. You married me.

  Brendan Behan

  Cynical, Married, Made

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• The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

  George Santayana

  Self, Cynical, Routine

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• The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Cynical, Biggest Mistake

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• Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Scary, Moses, Made

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