Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

- Dali, Salvador

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

15.

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

Garry Marshall

17.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

18.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

19.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

21.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Nadine Stair

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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

31.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Cullen Hightower

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Sophia Loren

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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

42.

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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.

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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