Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nadine Stair

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Henry James

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

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Henry C. Link

13.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Stair, Nadine

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Pearl Buck

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Gates, Bill

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

40.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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