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

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

Confucius

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Donald Foster

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

Gingrich, Newt

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Joel, Billy

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Henry James

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.