Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

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

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

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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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

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Henry C. Link

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Hein, Piet

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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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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gates, Bill

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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Pomfret

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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