Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Donald Foster

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

Sophia Loren

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

Pomfret

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Gingrich, Newt