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Mistake Quotes


"I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true."


"I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky."


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


"I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently."


"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."


"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision."


"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."


"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it."


"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."


"I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it."



"Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round."


"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."


"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."


"We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes."


"I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake."


"Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed."


"I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?"


"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."


"I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes."


"You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission."


"Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it."


"The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it."


"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal."


"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."


"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."


"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable."


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



"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."


"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."



"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."


"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."
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