Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Donald Foster

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

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

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Proverb, German

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Confucius

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Pearl Buck

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Henry James

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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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