Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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

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

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

10.

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.

11.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

18.

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

Cullen Hightower

19.

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

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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

Garry Marshall

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Henry James

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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Sophia Loren

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

39.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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