Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cullen Hightower

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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 life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Ward Cleaver

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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

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Joel, Billy

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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

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

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.