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

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Donald Foster

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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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

18.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Joel, Billy

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, German

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

34.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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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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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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero