Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Ward Cleaver

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Confucius

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, German

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Shapira, Gina

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ford, Henry

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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