Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Shapira, Gina

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Boswell, Nelson

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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

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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bradshaw, John

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio