Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pomfret

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

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

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

Garry Marshall

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.

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

Donald Foster

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

28.

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

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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Henry James

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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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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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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