140 Your Mistake Quotes

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Famous Your 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

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

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. — David Levithan

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

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

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

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

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

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. — Dalai Lama

Your best teacher is your last mistake. — Ralph Nader

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. — Billy Wilder

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad

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

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it. — Garth Brooks

But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. — Akio Morita

Short Your Mistake Quotes

  • You Make Your Mistakes To Learn How To Get To The Good Stuff — Quincy Jones
  • Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery. — Josh Linkner
  • Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice. — Allen Iverson
  • Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice. — Mod Sun
  • A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
  • Mistakes are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce
  • Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Japanese Proverbs
  • One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will. — Harvey Mackay
  • Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. — Salvador Dali
  • If you make a mistake, don’t hesitate to correct it. — Japanese Proverbs

Top 10 Your Mistake Quotes

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. — Coretta Scott King

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes. — Warsan Shire

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. — T. D. Jakes

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. - Zig Ziglar

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. — Zig Ziglar

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience. - T. B. Joshua

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience. — T. B. Joshua

Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you. They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you. — T.I.

Your Mistake Image Quotes

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. - William Randolph Hearst quote

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. — William Randolph Hearst

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!" - Benjamin Zander quote

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!" — Benjamin Zander

Your mistake quote A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Accept Your Mistake Quotes

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person — Marilyn Manson

When you are confident, you don’t care about what others think. You can take your mistakes seriously but still laugh because you know you can and will do better. Cleaners always have the confidence to know they’ll get it right. Accept the consequences and move on. — Tim Grover

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. — David D. Burns

Your mistake quote Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.

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

In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again. — Mary J. Blige

Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it. — David D. Burns

Your 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.

I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind. — Bart Starr

No one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together. — Richard G. Scott

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in. — Hosni Mubarak

Learn From Your Mistake Quotes

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

Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way! — Donald Trump

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down. — Shawn Johnson

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. - Mary Tyler Moore

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. — Mary Tyler Moore

Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:) - Richard Allen

Just learn from your mistakes..and for give yourself..and better yourself:) — Richard Allen

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes. — French Montana

Your 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.

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

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. - Marva Collins

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. — Marva Collins

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone! — Jim Whittaker

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better. — Leon Brown

Own Your Mistake Quotes

My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS. — Wiz Khalifa

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. — Robert Greene

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. — Paulo Coelho

Your 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.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store. — Joel Osteen

If you did it, own it. If you said it, stand by it. Not just the mistakes, but all your decisions and choices. That’s your reputation. Make it count. If you want your opinions to have value, you have to be willing to put them out there and mean what you say. — Tim Grover

Your 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.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. — Daniel Dennett

If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He goes out and creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes. He's a pretty poor excuse for a Supreme Being. — Gene Roddenberry

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! — Earl Nightingale

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own. — Otto von Bismarck

Admit Your Mistake Quotes

As long as you continue to deny responsibility, you have the added burden of covering your mistake, and you know the truth will eventually come out anyway. Why bother prolonging the drama? You screwed up, admit it. — Tim Grover

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. — Andrew Mason

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. — Steve Jobs

Your 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.

Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you! — Iyanla Vanzant

First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways. — Confucius

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault. — Joe Strummer

Your 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.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course. — Jane Fonda

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately. — Stephen Covey

I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better! — Jane Goodall

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame. — David Ogilvy

It's Not Your Mistake Quotes

Here’s the dangerous thing about Jesus: He’s not after your behaviour; he’s after your heart. Make no mistake about it. Jesus is going to relentlessly and passionately pursue your heart. Even when your behaviour tricks everybody else, it just doesn’t trick Jesus. He’s coming after the heart. — Sayings

It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent. — Viola Davis

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life. — Jeremy Piven

Your 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 would only go to Syria to destroy ISIS. I would not use U.S. troops to depose Assad. But I would support the rebels there. It's okay to support those people who share your view. But for the United States to be embroiled in a civil war in Syria against [Bashr] Assad I think is a big mistake. — John Kasich

The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last. — Mary-Kate Olsen

You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Your mistake quote There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there a
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's. — M. Leighton

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James

You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do. — Linus Torvalds

If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.' — Greg Koukl

My Mistake Quotes

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. — Dalai Lama

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be. — Joyce Meyer

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman

Your mistake quote No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
No man steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius

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

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain. — Johnny Cash

Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well. — Jhene Aiko

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. - Joe Budden

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly - Peter Cook

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook

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More Your Mistake Quotes

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. — Neil Gaiman

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. — Warren W. Wiersbe

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey

Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness. — Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — Saint Francis de Sales

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high. — Angela Merkel

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future. — Zig Ziglar

People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen

Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes. — Michael Franti

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style. — John Prine

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are. — Danielle LaPorte

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. — Martha Scott

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. — Tina Turner

Stop thinking about your past mistakes. Stop worrying about what the future holds. Start focusing on what you can do now. — Patrick Bet-David

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way. — Paulo Coelho

Spontaneous events are puzzles in the mind that you have to figure out on the go. It’s a part of living in the present. You have to be at your best and be alert to potential mistakes, because in that moment, the mind and its thinking process are one. You have to be ready to mold yourself to whatever life gives you. To be ready, you must be alert within. — Wim Hof

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