Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

- Magazine, Bernard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

30.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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

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

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

39.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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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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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ford, Henry