Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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.

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

Shapira, Gina

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pomfret

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Henry C. Link

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Garry Marshall

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

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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