Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Burnett, Leo

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

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

Stair, Nadine

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Wooden, John

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Henry James

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

Waitley, Denis

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

33.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rostand, Jean

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi