Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry C. Link

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Smith, Harold J.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

10.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

11.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Walter Bagehot

14.

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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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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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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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Rostand, Jean

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Gingrich, Newt

30.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

42.

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

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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