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

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Donald Foster

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Shapira, Gina

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Boswell, Nelson

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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

Confucius