Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry C. Link

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

25.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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 have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Proverb, German

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

Joel, Billy

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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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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

43.

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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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George