Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Jenkins, Josh

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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