Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Burnett, Leo

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Joel, Billy

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.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

12.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Pomfret

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Confucius

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis