Serious Mistakes Quotes:

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Business, Mistake, Wrong Answers, Serious Mistakes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Live For Yourself, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them

I would not use American ground forces in Syria. I think that would be a very serious mistake. I don't think American troops should be holding territory, which is what they would have to do as an occupying force. I don't think that is a smart strategy.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

topic: Mistake, Smart, Thinking, American Troops, Serious Mistakes

You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

- Richard G. Scott

source: "Making the Right Choices". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 1994.

topic: Strong, Mistake, Good Friend, Serious Mistakes

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

- Mary Pickford

topic: Mistake, Fall, New Day, Today Is A New Day, Supposing

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

- Marvin Minsky

topic: Mistake, Eye, Doors, Traverse, Serious Mistakes

It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Mistake, Serious, Would Be, Tycoons, Serious Mistakes

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

- Hannah Whitall Smith

topic: Religious, Mistake, Real, Left Out, Feelings And Emotions

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

- Horst Seehofer

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Mistake, Decision, German History, Serious Mistakes

There are serious mistakes - among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel... Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion... It is a mistake that another religion exists alongside Islam. There is only one religion which is Islam after Mohammed... All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

source: "Gaddafi says only Islam a universal religion" by Salah Sarrar, www.reuters.com. March 31, 2007.

topic: Jesus, Mistake, Son, Serious Mistakes

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Mistake, Loss, Effort, Serious Mistakes

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

- Elie Wiesel

source: "The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

topic: Mistake, Land, Serious, Serious Mistakes

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.183, Tara Publishing

topic: Mistake, People, Violence, Serious Mistakes

It is a serious mistake to judge God within the narrow limits of our own understanding and abilities.

- Sterling W Sill

topic: Mistake, Judging, Understanding, Serious Mistakes

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

- John C. Bogle

topic: Mistake, Successful, Looks, Successful Investing, Serious Mistakes

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Mistake, Serious, Littles, Insincere, Serious Mistakes

You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

- Mikhail Prokhorov

topic: Smart, Mistake, Years, Serious Mistakes, Smart Money

When we follow our hearts, we follow the path of lessons we were meant to take and gain knowledge from. Sometimes the heart conquers over reason, and this may lead us to making serious mistakes, but these are mistakes written for us to grow. This is the real reason you hear 'FOLLOW YOUR HEART'. And the real reason you hear, 'FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS' is because our dreams expose us to our true multidimensional realities outside of this delusional realm we call reality. Our TRUE reality can be found in our dreams, where we are our true multidimensional selves.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Dream, Real, Mistake, True Reality, Serious Mistakes

If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

- Douglas Wilder

source: "Obama-clinton Ticket for 2012". www.politico.com. August 02, 2010.

topic: Running, Mistake, Serious, Serious Mistakes

Living a life of service, rather than one of expression, is a serious mistake, because expressing who we really are is the greatest service we can perform.

- Kurt Hanks

topic: Mistake, Expression, Serious, Serious Mistakes

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

- Nelson Mandela

source: "Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

topic: Mistake, Taken, Long, Foreign Affairs, Repercussions

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

- Tom Clancy

source: Tom Clancy (1990). “Clear and Present Danger”, p.201, Penguin

topic: Wise, Real, Mistake, Serious Mistakes

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

- Jurgen Habermas

topic: War, Mistake, Decision, Serious Mistakes

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

- Lincoln Steffens

topic: Father, Mistake, Parent, Serious Mistakes

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

- Richard L. Evans

topic: Mistake, Men, Perspective, Serious Mistakes

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Teamwork, Mistake, Missing, Kepler, Mendel

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Fashion, Confused, Mistake, Good Taste, Superficiality

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.

- William O'Neil

topic: Running, Mistake, Philosophy, Serious Mistakes

Very serious mistakes were made by previous governments, and Greece was ready to be abandoned by its partners and to leave the eurozone, which would have created total catastrophe.

- Antonis Samaras

source: "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

topic: Mistake, Government, Serious, Mistakes Were Made, Eurozone

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

- Nadia Boulanger

topic: Music, Mistake, Serious, Serious Mistakes

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

- Dick Cheney

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 14, 2003.

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Unemployment, Serious Mistakes