Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Garry Marshall

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Bradshaw, John

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

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

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

Elbert Hubbard

11.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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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

19.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

20.

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

21.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joel, Billy

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Henry James

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

Churchill, Winston

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Ford, Henry

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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