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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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.

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

11.

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

Hein, Piet

12.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

13.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Einstein, Albert

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill