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

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Shapira, Gina

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

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

10.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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

13.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gingrich, Newt

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Confucius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Smith, Harold J.

29.

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

30.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

31.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

32.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

33.

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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.