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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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

10.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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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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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 clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Walter Bagehot

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

28.

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

Link, Henry C.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Stair, Nadine

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.