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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."



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


"I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio."


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



"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been."


"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."


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


"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."


"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."


"Find fault with thyself rather than with others."


"It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes."


"To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on."


"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."


"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."



"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."


"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."


"If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake."


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


"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."


"I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them."


"It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat."


"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."


"Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake."



"It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."


"A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once."


"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."


"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."


"You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own."
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