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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Henry James

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Morita, Akio

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Waitley, Denis

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.