Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry C. Link

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Henry James

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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pearl Buck

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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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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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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Nadine Stair