Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Garry Marshall

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Stair, Nadine

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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 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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake