Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

- Boswell, Nelson

Best Quotes about Mistakes

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

10.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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.

Al Franken

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

43.

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Ford, Henry

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey