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Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Drucker, Peter F.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Garry Marshall

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Cullen Hightower

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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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