Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pearl Buck

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Garry Marshall

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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 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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Joel, Billy

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

Henry James

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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

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

34.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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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 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.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.