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

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Bradshaw, John

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Pearl Buck

10.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

12.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Smith, Harold J.

29.

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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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