Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Yourcenar

Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Sometimes its difficult to accept, to recognise ones own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

Naomi Campbell

I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

Naomi Campbell

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Naomi Klein

It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'. Unfortunately we have an economic model that thinks like a crack addict.

Nafisa Joseph

Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

Mitt Romney

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

Mitt Romney

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

R. A. Torrey

Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth.

R. C. Sproul

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

R. Buckminster Fuller

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Pierre Laval

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

Pierre Omidyar

You'll fail at some things - that's a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience. What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones...I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Nelson Mandela

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

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Kristen Stewart

I stand by every mistake I've ever made, so judge away.

Kristen Stewart

Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff..

Kristen Stewart

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

Oscar Levant

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Omar Torrijos

Those that consult more, make less mistakes

Omar N. Bradley

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Oprah Winfrey

There are no mistakes in life!

Oprah Winfrey

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

Oprah Winfrey

Your mistake does not define who you are...you are your possibilities.

Oprah Winfrey

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

Oprah Winfrey

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Olivia Wilde

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)