Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Giovanni, Nikki

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

Sophia Loren

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Pomfret

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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

22.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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 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

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pearl Buck

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

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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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo