Mistake Quotes - Page 28

• The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.

  Dean Acheson

  Office, Political, Politics

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• Life is a competition not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair a mistake; each day to surpass ourselves.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Yesterday, Competition

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• If one does not practice nonviolence in one's own personal relations with others and hopes to use it in bigger affairs, one is vastly mistaken.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Practice, Doe, Use

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• We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

  George H. W. Bush

  Sex, Triumph, Made

  "Super Duper Political Bloopers" by Buck Wolf, abcnews.go.com. October 6, 2000.

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• My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: Li£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Life, Rain, Men

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• An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Errors, Refuse

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• Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

  Morton Blackwell

  Perfect, Rivals, Winner

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• We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

  Mickey Rivers

  Ifs

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• By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Truth, Errors, Assumption

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.363, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wind, Rivers, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.139

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• Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Life, Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

  Sam Donaldson

  Years, President, Made

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• Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Children, Self

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• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  May, Excuse, Quarrels

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• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  Walter Bagehot

  Trying, Belief

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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• If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

  Bing Crosby

  Song, Fun, Singing

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• If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Regret, Fear, Chance

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2016

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Responsibility

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• Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

  Carl Sagan

  Teamwork, Missing, Kepler

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• We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

  Bryan A. Garner

  Senses

  Bryan A. Garner (2011). “Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage”, p.425, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Dream, Money

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Teacher, Judging, Regard

  Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”

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• Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, People

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• Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run, rich dad suggested I write down all the mistakes I made and then seek help. If I made accounting mistakes, I talked to an accountant. If there was a legal mistake, I talked to an attorney. That was my way out. That is how I got smarter.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Suicide

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• It's mistakes that get you killed

  Joe Teti

  Survival

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