Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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 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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Sophia Loren

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Proverb, German

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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 painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Confucius

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

Henry C. Link

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ward Cleaver

42.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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

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Mandino, Og

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

Joel, Billy

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

Henry James

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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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