Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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 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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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Donald Foster

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.