144 My Big Mistake Quotes

Following is our list of my big mistake quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about you made a big mistake.

Quick Jump To

Famous My Big Mistake Quotes

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. — Confucius

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. — Confucius

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. — Plato

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. — Frank Wilczek

The biggest mistake to me is complacency. — Bonnie Hammer

Anyone can make an error. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Timothy Zahn

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. — Albert Einstein

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. - T. B. Joshua

Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. — T. B. Joshua

You're making a big mistake if you think that you can beat me. — Daniel Gillies

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. - Eli Siegel

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. — Eli Siegel

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. — Harvey Mackay

The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake. — Goh Keng Swee

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Orlando A. Battista

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Orlando A. Battista

Short My Big Mistake Quotes

  • But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. — Akio Morita
  • one who makes no mistakes makes nothing — Giacomo Casanova
  • When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. — Dalai Lama
  • Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice. — Allen Iverson
  • The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — John Powell
  • The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
  • A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
  • The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself — Brian Tracy
  • Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. — Salvador Dali
  • The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. — Meister Eckhart

My Big Mistake Image Quotes

My big mistake quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

I Made A Big Mistake Quotes

My father made a mistake and he paid a big price for it, but he’s my father. He’s given me everything I have in terms of the skills and the training and taught me about being a man. I feel extremely lucky to have him in my life. — Jared Kushner

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake." — Chuck Yeager

My devotion to my job started from a personal defeat: my first girlfriend's parents rejected me because i wasn't rich. I decided i would show them what a big mistake they had made. — Roberto Cavalli

My big mistake quote Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative. — Andre Norton

What happens when you get a big break and you haven't prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you've ever made. I see it happen all the time. — Quincy Jones

You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't take. I think I made a very big mistake. — The Notorious B.I.G.

My big mistake quote No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone wh
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't. — David Geffen

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake. — Vince Gill

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest. — Bonnie McKee

I made a big mistake. It is indefensible and I am sorry. — William J. Clinton

You Made A Big Mistake Quotes

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? — Jacques Plante

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is. — Boyd K. Packer

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

My big mistake quote Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job — Muhammad Ali

My Big Mistake Quotes

Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome. — Nick Vujicic

I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese - big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I'm eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face. — Wesley Snipes

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. — Steve Jobs

My big mistake quote A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.
A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.

A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it. — Deborah Turbeville

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. — Patty Hearst

In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium. — Bode Miller

My big mistake quote Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.
Analyze your mistakes. You've already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited. — Ryan Lochte

The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way. — Barbara Corcoran

I have a big job on my hands now, there is no mistaking that, but I feel as though I have calmness within myself. (on being Manchester City manager) — Stuart Pearce

My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer; we knew we had made a mistake! — Lauren Bush

Pretty Woman Quotes

I just want your extra time and your.......... Kiss — Prince

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. — Guy de Maupassant

I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful. — Bobbi Brown

My big mistake quote Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. — Oscar Wilde

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' — Anna Quindlen

My big mistake quote Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. — African Proverbs

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there's a woman. — Phil Robertson

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. — Coco Chanel

Big Mistake In Life Quotes

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation. — Jeanette Winterson

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down. — Jonathan Franzen

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself. — Alexander Alekhine

My big mistake quote Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.

Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one. — Grantland Rice

Bad Mistake Quotes

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs

My big mistake quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices. — Common

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. — Dan Harmon

My big mistake quote No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of. — Kenneth Lay

Never promote someone who hasn’t made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything. — Philip Arthur Fisher

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation. — Jocko Willink

The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us. — Chris Prentiss

Biggest Mistake Quotes

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes. - Gurbaksh Chahal

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes. — Gurbaksh Chahal

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. — Benjamin Franklin

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy. — Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates

We may have made one of the biggest and most stupid collective mistakes in history by getting so worried about global warming. — Nigel Farage

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity. — Nicole Kidman

One of the biggest mistakes investors make is to look at the last few years and assume that’s the new norm. — Francois Rochon

The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience. — Naval Ravikant

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. — Noah Weinberg

Good Mistake Quotes

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha

With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them. — Marcus Luttrell

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes. — Omar N. Bradley

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. - Ingvar Kamprad

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. — Mikhail Tal

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. — Cindy Sherman

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. — Stephen Hawking

You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff — Quincy Jones

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

Stupid Mistake Quotes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. — Unknown

Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that. — Sophia Bush

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. — Monica Lewinsky

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes? — Mika

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away. — Marc Maron

I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn. — Charlie Munger

I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell. — Anton Chekhov

One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes. — Afrojack

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics are making today in reverse. They think you can love heretics by loving heresies. — Peter Kreeft

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table. — Bent Larsen

Great Mistakes Quotes

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell

The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone. — Arthur W. Pink

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. — Garry Marshall

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. — Steve Harvey

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. — George Muller

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward - Thomas A. Edison

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal. — Patrick Lencioni

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. - Dean Smith

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith

A mistake is only temporary; the failure to learn is permanent. An openness to learning is what makes a great negotiator. — William Ury

People Writing About My Big Mistake

Name Quotes Likes
Read quotes by Confucius

Confucius
quotes on life, aging and education

911 18025
Read quotes by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan
quotes on life, love and war

868 4662
Read quotes by Plato

Plato
quotes on life, love and reality

945 13426
Read quotes by Frank Wilczek

Frank Wilczek
quotes on life, education and friendship

13 143
Read quotes by Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn
quotes on culture, leadership and technology

16 325
Read quotes by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein
quotes on education, success and imagination

1931 58682

More My Big Mistake Quotes

I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body. — Layne Staley

My whole career, I've had an issue with always kind of being an underdog and making a big mistake when it counts and falling and having to climb back up. One moment everything will be peachy and everyone will be saying the nicest things about me and loving me, and the next minute I'm the worst, I'm evil, all these things. It's like a fallen angel. — Johnny Weir

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say "I do not play bridge" is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn't "at all a good player, in fact I'm perfectly rotten," is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth. — Robert Benchley

I made a big mistake of my life. — Robert Jenkins

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. — David Bowie

I voted fror Trump because I genuinely thought that Hillary Clinton was a threat to the American experiment. I usually do not talk in those big terms, but she did not believe in free speech, her hatred of the Citizens United ruling indicated to me that she believed that speech should be controlled. I voted for Trump, 5% of my mind was thinking the guy is Hitler. There was a five percent chance that I am making a huge mistake. — Andrew Klavan

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career". — Winona Ryder

Conditioning can be not a big heavy thing. (For instance:) I've got a brand new pair of shoes, by mistake you step on it and you make them muddy and dirty, I'm conditioned to go "Hey, what are you doing?" That's my conditioning, I have a response. So, maybe we have to learn to find the pause before we react, because reaction is our conditioning. — Joseph Fiennes

I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate. — Sharon Stone

The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures. — George Carlin

I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address. — Rebecca

I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there. — David Levithan

I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost. — Alex Garland

I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake. — Rick Riordan

I don’t intimidate you at all, do I? (Acheron) Well, when you chased me through Kyrian’s house, I did wet my pants a bit. Guess I’m not housebroken after all. My mom will be so disappointed after all she went through to potty train me. But once you let me live…your big mistake…now I know you think I’m too cute and fluffy to kill. (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right. — Sarah Strohmeyer

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

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of my big mistake quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about my big mistake to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.

Citation

Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of my big mistake quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage