Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

Henry James

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

Morita, Akio

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Confucius

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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 have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Carnegie, Dale