Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Donald Foster

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proverb, German

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Henry James

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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