Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

10.

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

11.

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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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

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

Henry C. Link

14.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Confucius

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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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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

20.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

22.

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

Burnett, Leo

23.

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

Pomfret

24.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

28.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

29.

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

Henry James

30.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

31.

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

Bradshaw, John

32.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 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 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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

49.

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

Garry Marshall

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