Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them that's the mark of a great player.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

In general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views not even kindness.

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Marriage is a very good thing but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

Our intentions may be very good but because the intelligence is limited the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake but not necessarily a sin for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No I made a few mistakes.'

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

In life you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Woman was God's second mistake.

There was my name up in lights. I said 'God somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said 'Remember you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

On Australia Day 2010 as we enter this second decade of the 21st century Australians can be optimistic about our future but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.