Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Stair, Nadine

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Niels Bohr

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

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.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

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

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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ward Cleaver

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Sophia Loren

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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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