Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Confucius

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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

24.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Pearl Buck

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Henry James

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles