Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Link, Henry C.

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Bennett, James Gordon

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Pearl Buck

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous