Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Link, Henry C.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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.

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

Nadine Stair

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Henry James

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joel, Billy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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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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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