Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

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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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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.