Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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

Joel, Billy

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Confucius

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry James

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henry C. Link

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.