Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

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

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Confucius

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Link, Henry C.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt