Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Cash

You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

John Stuart Mill

To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

John Rawls

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

James Hunt

How many mistakes were made that we don?t know about.

James Joyce

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

James Russell Lowell

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

James Q. Wilson

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

James F. Byrnes

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Laurence J. Peter

The habitually punctual make all their mistakes right on time.

Kurt Sutter

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

Liane Moriarty

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Libba Bray

Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

Leslie Mann

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

Lester Bowie

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

Lester B. Pearson

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Friedrich Schiller

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Harvey Mackay

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.

Harvey Mackay

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

Harvey Mackay

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Harvey Mackay

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

George Foreman

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

Gene Wilder

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

You work hard. Work's going to win, and wishing won't. We've got to be more detailed. We have to be more disciplined. We can't make the mistakes that we're making.

Henry Rollins

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

Henry B. Eyring

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

Henry A. Kissinger

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

Henry A. Kissinger

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Helen Humphreys

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

Hector Hugh Munro

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

Henry David Thoreau

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

Henry Ford

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

Mamie Gummer

You do what you can. You have to leave room to grow and make mistakes.