Mistake defines an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc. We all to mistakes. But mistakes are not for regret but for learning from them. Who learns from his mistakes becomes better with time. This is a collection of 120+ mistake quotes and sayings.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a
failure. James Altucher
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. Morihei
Ueshiba
Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche
Your best teacher is your last mistake. Ralph Nader
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do
under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. B. F. Skinner
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without
getting nervous. Alexander Hamilton
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. Bob Dylan
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement. Henry Ford
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do
only a little. Edmund Burke
Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make
a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters. Justin
Bieber
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with
potatoes. Douglas Adams
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Orlando
Aloysius Battista
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same
mistake twice. Akio Morita
I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine
plan. That sounds dramatic. Lana Del Rey
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. Millard Fillmore
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings
Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne
is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it. Cameron Dallas
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. - Chris Bradford
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that
you'll make one. Elbert Hubbard
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake:
not knowing where your mistakes are at. Meek Mill
Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly,
correct and learn from it. Stephen Covey
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with
darkness, silence, and solitude. H. P. Lovecraft
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren't focused
enough on the road in front of you. Brad Paisley
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of
people are really a big mistake. Vincent D'Onofrio
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual
views a mistake. Nelson Boswell
People mistake their limitations for high standards. Jean Toomer
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the
product of a huge mistake. James Altucher
I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'. John Ashcroft
Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love. Stanley Kubrick
My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small. Shimon Peres
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual
discourse. Tucker Max
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make
one. John C. Maxwell
You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part
of your life and start another as if there's no continuity. Rudy Giuliani
It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have
different filters. Julian Treasure
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to
talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. Deborah Tannen
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting
faith in anyone is a mistake. Christopher Hitchens
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
Robert Fripp
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset. Paul J. Meyer
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I
have never made one. James Gordon Bennett
If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
Cameron Dallas
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Romain Rolland
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn
anything from being perfect. Adam Osborne
Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. Robert Half
You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's
dig deep.' Jamie Dimon
If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same
mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society. Denis Villeneuve
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it,
that's the way we learn. Earl Warren
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way
round. Walter Annenberg
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
Pauline Kael
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and
most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake. Nash
Grier
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. Chuck Schumer
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. Jonathan
Swift
The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea
is unthinkable. Luis Figo
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in
cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. Samuel Butler
It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it
looks great. Anna Wintour
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without
making a mistake. Anton Chekhov
Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
Kat Dennings
You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of
delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch.
Otherwise it doesn't work. Wayne Huizenga
Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice. Neil Finn
If you make a fashion mistake, that's one that's going to resonate for a
very long time. Meghan Markle
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. Edward R.
Murrow
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let
nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. Bryant H. McGill
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking
in a no-nonsense way for aggression. Richard Dawkins
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the
level of being a crime. Kamala Harris
I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me
on what I did so that I learn that way. Ne-Yo
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark
will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it. Nayvadius Cash
If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid
of what isn't. R. Buckminster Fuller
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. Gertrude Stein
Once you make that first mistake, it kind of clears up everything, and
everything can come to you. Ezekiel Elliott
It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and
personal development. David Blunkett
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it
again. Earl Wilson
With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake. Red Adair
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as
by never repeating it. Christian Nestell Bovee
I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them
and doing my best to only make each mistake once. Bre Pettis
A great many people mistake opinions for thought. Herbert V. Prochnow
When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position
to make a mistake. Roland Martin
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right. Ben Bradlee
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin
Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. William
Randolph Hearst
It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what
they do that matters but what they are not doing. Cyril Connolly
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake. James Surowiecki
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Walter Bagehot
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. Salvador DalĂ
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn
from the mistakes of others. Brandon Mull
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is
wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is
courage, not weakness.
One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life. Joyce Meyer
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill
Gates
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. William Jordan
Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders
boredom. Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
Criss Jami
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative
activities. Len Deighton
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of
being always right. Samuel Butler