Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry James

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Donald Foster

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

Smith, Harold J.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Einstein, Albert

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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's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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