Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Donald Foster

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

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Link, Henry C.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Jenkins, Josh

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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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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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 value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Garry Marshall

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

Peter McWilliams

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Bradshaw, John