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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hein, Piet

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Garry Marshall

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nadine Stair

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Confucius

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Pearl Buck

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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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.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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