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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Joel, Billy

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Henry C. Link

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

Stair, Nadine

10.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

11.

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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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

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

22.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Henry James

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

29.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

31.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

32.

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

Einstein, Albert

33.

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

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Walter Bagehot

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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 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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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