Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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

22.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

23.

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

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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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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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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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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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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 are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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 make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jenkins, Josh

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Sophia Loren

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

Confucius

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael