One Mistake Quotes

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can’t let one mistake compound into another mistake

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake — one person killed that was a civilian — and at the same time say, ‘Well, we don’t really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren’t civilians’? I don’t know how you can do that.

You made one mistake. You married me.

Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?

You can’t hate somebody for the rest of their lives over one mistake.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it’s never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it’s never forgotten.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that’s their fault – not yours. And it’s OK to be a decent human being in this life.

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that’s all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you’ll always be known for that one poor choice.

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I’m not stupid. (Xypher) I didn’t say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

How many times do we pay for one mistake? The answer is a thousand times for the same mistake. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for ONE mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

One mistake up here and it’s half a day out with the undertaker!

We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake – the last one.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

History is the same thing over and over again.

When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty.

You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president’s exact quote was: ‘I ain’t make none mistakes ever.’

Mistakes don’t scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I’ve really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it’s just as important to know what doesn’t work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

One mistake does not define you.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

The only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal – these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.