Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

Joel, Billy

12.

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

Donald Foster

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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 clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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 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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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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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 trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Henry C. Link

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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.

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Walter Bagehot

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis