Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Garry Marshall

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

Donald Foster

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

14.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

Bradshaw, John

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Henry James

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Confucius

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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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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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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Nicolaides, Kimon