Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nadine Stair

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Confucius

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

Henry James

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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