In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

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

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
Sigmund Freud

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
Steve Martin

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow Wilson

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Phyllis Diller

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton