Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Rostand, Jean

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

12.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Morita, Akio

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

Joel, Billy

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

22.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pearl Buck

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Waitley, Denis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

45.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, 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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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

48.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.