Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Donald Foster

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

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.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Confucius

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

Ward Cleaver

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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

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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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 fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Nadine Stair

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

Gingrich, Newt

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

33.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, German

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Pearl Buck