Top 530 Mistake Quotes

The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There’s something very unmanly about it.
Jeremy Irvine
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
Annie Dillard
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Jack Dangermond
When you try to predict future E.R.A.’s with past E.R.A.’s, you’re making a mistake.
Nate Silver
Yes, it seems we’ve got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It’s really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, ‘Oh, the other, get them out of here.’
Geraldine Brooks
Man was nature’s mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won’t forgive you if you lie.
Mark Goulston
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn’t understand that you don’t get another take ever. I’m finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
Kirsten Vangsness
Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.
Tammy Bruce
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft
Thongs don’t show. With jeans, you’re always going to get panty lines and I think that’s just a big mistake.
Lexa Doig
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
Nick Rahall
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.
Deborah Tannen
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
Before ‘Life of Pi,’ I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can’t see it as my cup of tea anymore.
Suraj Sharma
Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn’t a hit, you shouldn’t view it as a mistake.
Ang Lee
My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.
Brad D. Smith
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
Kristi Noem
The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush
If you don’t know where you make your mistakes, that’s your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.
Meek Mill
If sleep does not provide a remarkable set of benefits, then it’s the biggest mistake the evolutionary process has ever made.
Matthew Walker
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
It didn’t get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
Donal Logue
The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.
George Monbiot
It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of

It’s a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you’re making.
Max Irons
The mistake British comedians often make is trying to beat the Americans at their own game – getting visiting American singers on their shows, talking about ‘sidewalk’ instead of ‘pavement,’ sitting on high stools in a white dinner jacket doing ballads. That way, you simply end up with a mid-Atlantic mishmash.
Benny Hill
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
Wesley Schultz
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost – and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Walter Cronkite
To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.
Kevin Mitnick
You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
Bob Iger
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’
Tom Brokaw
It’s a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it’s also wildly true. Just don’t mistake it for a fixation with getting rich.
Chelsea Clinton
I will take every constructive criticism, make it my own, learn from my mistake, and go forward.
Julie Payette
It’s a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn’t really worked.
Gore Verbinski
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
Ava Gardner
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
Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.
Madam C. J. Walker
Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala Harris
I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that’s part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.
Niklas Zennstrom
The one who intimidates me is myself. I’m scared to fail. That is the thing that makes me the most afraid, to fail. Just to think that I can do a mistake and lose the fight scares me, so that is why I work out a lot: to bring more chance to my size and less chance to my opponent.
Francis Ngannou
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell
Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.
David Nalbandian
Most people make the mistake of over-training the biceps and under-training the triceps.
Harley Pasternak
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
David Malpass
We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
John C. Calhoun
Make no mistake, a ‘yes’ vote on the Democrats’ health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
John Boehner
It urges policy makers and the Supreme Court to make the mistake of curing what could prove to be an isolated problem by disarming the government of its principal weapon to stop future terrorist attacks.
John Yoo
I can tell you this: Everything in my life that I am happy about it is the product of a huge mistake.
James Altucher
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
Martin Freeman
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie’s up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior year. Kid Rock is passed out in a hotel room somewhere with four scantily-clad women.
Kid Rock
Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.
Jocko Willink
The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
George Harrison
After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
Marshall Herskovitz
A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They’ll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.
Curtis Jackson
Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.
Lori Lightfoot
There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
Charles Spurgeon
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.
Pete Maravich
In the early days, start-ups make the main mistake of hiring people to do the work that they could do themselves.
Jon Oringer