Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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

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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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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Confucius

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Sophia Loren

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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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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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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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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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Henry James