Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Nicklaus

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

Jack Nicklaus

I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it.

Jack Nicholson

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

Jack Nicholson

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

Jack Kelly

I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

Jack Johnson

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

Jack Kerouac

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

J. Courtney Sullivan

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Isabel Allende

When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

Hannah More

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

Hannah More

Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.

Hannah More

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Hannah More

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

Greg Gutfeld

The first mistake is trying to explain morality to a terrorist. Like trying to teach a rock to drive. It is impossible.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

Gerry Fleming

Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are definitely preventable, but they're a lapse of mental awareness and that happens with fatigue. I'm not trying to make excuses. This is just the reality of the situation.

Gerry Rafferty

You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.

Harry Chapin

I'd rather make a mistake than do nothing.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

Gregg Popovich

Basketball's a game of mistakes.

Greg Boyle

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

Colin Powell

I regret to say that President Aristide, I think, has made some mistakes over the years,

Casey Stengel

I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

How are people going to be compensated when, inevitably, mistakes are made?

He's remorseful for his mistake and apologetic. I took all those things into consideration, and six weeks' suspension with no pay is pretty tough.

Daniel Alfredsson

I don't know if (the Bolts) wanted it more. We just made too many mistakes and we know we've got to play better as a team.

Armando Benitez

I didn't think it was serious. It was a mistake to go out there. Look what happened.

Jack LaLanne

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

Jack Canfield

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Jack Canfield

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.

J. J. Abrams

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

J. G. Ballard

Everywhere you look Britain, the States, western Europe people are sealing themselves into crime-free enclaves. That's a mistake a certain level of crime is part of the necessary roughage of life. Total security is a disease of deprivation.

J. I. Packer

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.