Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Niels Bohr

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Sophia Loren

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Rostand, Jean

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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

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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