Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

10.

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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Pearl Buck

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

Henry C. Link

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Mandino, Og

36.

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

Gates, Bill

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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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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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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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