Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Proverb, German

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

12.

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

Ward Cleaver

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

21.

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

22.

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

Nadine Stair

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

29.

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

Pearl Buck

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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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Henry James

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Joel, Billy