Made A Mistake Quotes

Sometimes, there just isn't the opportunity or willingness to make things better. Sometime you can't simply have another go. You make a choice, and its a bad one, and you're left with it. No amount of trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you, to cut you slack; you made a mistake and you'll have to live with it.
- Dan Abnett

I think we've made a mistake," he says softly. "We've all started to put down virtues of the other faction in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
- Veronica Roth

I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Emily was so excited she forgot. She was so happy she made a mistake and said, Thank you so much, Mommy!
- Debra Anastasia

Teresa, Teresa. Have we taught you nothing?" Raffy says in an irritated voice. "It's war. You go in and you hunt him down until he realises that he's made a mistake.
- Melina Marchetta

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
- Charles M Schulz

Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.
- L M Montgomery

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
- Anthony Bourdain

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
- Carl Sandburg

Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.
- Michael Scott

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
- Rudyard Kipling

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

We'de have to get in and get out the hard way; and if we made a mistake, there was no telling what sort of curse we'de unleash: monster guardians, plagues, fires, exploding donkeys(don't laugh; they're bad news).
- Rick Riordan

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

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.
- Chris Christie

I have made so many mistakes but I have learned a lot and I'm confident to say - he who never made a mistake never made any discovery
- Bernard Kelvin Clive

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
- Marilyn Monroe

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
- Joan Collins

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
- Sean Covey

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
- Candy Crowley

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
- Thomas John Watson Sr

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'
- Jamie Dimon

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
- Nelson Mandela

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
- Janet Frame

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
- John Frusciante

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.
- Terry Goodkind

I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a rape victim. I want women to have choices, but I also believe that it's a life, especially once it's big enough to live outside the womb.
- Laurell K Hamilton

He's made a mistake in coming here tonight. He'd wanted to see a room filled with ruffly knickknacks and lacy gewgaws. A room like any other, to indicate that she was a woman like any other.
- Kristin Hannah

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
- Patricia Highsmith

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
- Robin Hobb

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
- David Irving

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
- Bianca Jagger

I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
- Jim Jarmusch

I don't know anyone in the public eye who has not made a mistake and said something in a manner that does not truly reflect their intentions.
- Jim Jeffords

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
- Angelina Jolie

So you made a mistake. Don't beat yourself up over it. Let me beat you up instead.
- Jarod Kintz

The pros and cons of being a criminal: Prosare cons that haven't been caught. Consare former pros that made a mistake.
- Jarod Kintz

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.
- Dorothy Koomson

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
- John Major

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
- Malcolm X

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
- Walter Martin

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
- W Somerset Maugham

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.
- Jay Mohr

Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regretand that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.
- Chloe Neill

I knew he was a prick, but a part of me wanted to hear what he'd say, to hear him say how sorry he really was that he'd screwed up. I wanted groveling for forgiveness and pledges of undying love. As dumb as I knew it was, I wanted him to fight for me, to prove that I hadn't made a mistake by believing in him. Or us.
- Jenny O Connell

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.
- Jim Otto

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
- T Boone Pickens

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

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.
- Fred Rogers

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
- Theodore C Sorensen

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.
- Jim Thompson

Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.
- Ai Yazawa