Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maxwell Maltz

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

Maxwell Maltz

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

Maxwell Maltz

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

Maya Angelou

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Marina Abramovic

We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marilyn vos Savant

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

Kirsten Gillibrand

The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.

Kim Wilde

I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.

Kim Stanley Robinson

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.

Kevin Costner

I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

Ken Hensley

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

Kathie Lee Gifford

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake.

Kathleen Hanna

Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.

Kamala Harris

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Julia Child

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

Judith Butler

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

It was just another error-plagued game. We just made little mistakes like we have been doing all year.

Trent Dilfer

It was just one mistake of many. We all took our turn making mistakes.

They would be making a very, very severe mistake,

Gerald R. Ford

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Gerald R. Ford

I once told you that I am not a saint, and I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake. So I will close with another confession. Frequently, along the tortuous road of recent months from this chamber to the Presidents House, I protested that I was my own man. Now I realize that I was wrong. I am your man, for it was your carefully weighed confirmation that changed my occupation. The truth is I am the peoples man, for you acted in their name, and I accepted and began my new and solemn trust with a promise to serve all the people and do the best that I can for America.

Jim Jeffords

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 Jefferies

Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

Jim Jarmusch

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

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

Jim Jarmusch

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.

Jessica Savitch

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Jesse Eisenberg

I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

Jenn Suhr

I've made some mistakes before.

Glenda Bailey

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

Glenn Beck

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.