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Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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

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

Morita, Akio

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Nadine Stair

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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 mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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 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, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah