Mistake quotes

“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.” Bob Dylan

“Never mistake motion for action.” Ernest Hemingway

“I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.” Jimi Hendrix

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.” Jim Morrison

“You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.” Kim Kardashian

“I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!” Kim Kardashian

“I've made mistakes in my life for sure.” Kim Kardashian

“It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.” Stanley Kubrick

“I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.” Steve Martin

“I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.” Barack Obama

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.” Barack Obama

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” Barack Obama

“Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.” Barack Obama

“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.” Joel Osteen

“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.” Joel Osteen

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.” Mitt Romney

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” Theodore Roosevelt

“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.” Henry Rollins

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.” Rene Descartes

“Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.” Richard Dawkins

“When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.” Bertrand Russell

“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.” Bill Cosby

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.” Bill Cosby

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” Angelina Jolie

“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