Mistake Quotes - Page 13

• If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.

  Sheila Walsh

  Hope, Encouragement, Giving Up

  Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1938, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Dreams are a sweet mistake
  All dreamers must awake
  On, then, with the dance
  No backward glance
  Or my heart will break
  Never look back.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Dream, Sweet, Heart

  "Song: 'One More Kiss'". 1987.

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• Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

  Ralph Marston

  Life, Progress, Grows

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• Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.

  Robert Breault

  Time, Tragedy, Ends

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• There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Taken, Learning, Finals

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• A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

  Carolyn Wells

  Moments, Blunders, Wrong Time

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• If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

  Dale Carnegie

  Ifs

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• If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Acknowledge, Terrified, Reluctant

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.

  Ralph Marston

  Frustration, Effectiveness, Understanding

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• Every day we all make mistakes ourselves, but, and we all sometimes have some...harbor some prejudices and all, but we have to know in our heart it's wrong. And we all want to remember that we are connected. And that any kind of racism is wrong.

  Russell Simmons

  Heart, Racism, Prejudice

  "Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons". "Voices on Antisemitism", www.ushmm.org. October 25, 2007.

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• Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Philosopher, Flight

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.463, David Hume

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• It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Inspiration, Creativity, Technique

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• I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

  Donald Sterling

  Racism, Racist, Made

  "Donald Sterling tells Anderson Cooper: I was 'baited' into 'a terrible mistake'". Article by Ismael Estrada and Catherine E. Shoichet, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2014.

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• Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

  Bernard Baruch

  Love, Heart, Self

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• You made one mistake. You married me.

  Brendan Behan

  Cynical, Married, Made

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• The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

  George Santayana

  Self, Cynical, Routine

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• The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

  Robert E. Lee

  Military, Cynical, Biggest Mistake

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• Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Scary, Moses, Made

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• It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

  Charles E. Blake

  People, Scary, Black

  "Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush" by John Leland, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 2001.

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• A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

  Confucius

  Leadership, Motivation, Failure

  Confucius, Qian Sima (1938). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Modern Library

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• Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Making Mistakes, Doe, Courses

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• To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

  Josh Jenkins

  Funny, Overdoing It, Humans

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• Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

  Dean Martin

  Making Mistakes, Looks, Everybody Makes Mistakes

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