Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

- Smith, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Donald Foster

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

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

Shapira, Gina

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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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

11.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

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

14.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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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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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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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.

23.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

25.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Confucius

30.

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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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Joel, Billy

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

38.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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