Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Waitley, Denis

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Henry James

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

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