Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pomfret

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

12.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

25.

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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Joel, Billy

31.

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

Gates, Bill

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Jenkins, Josh

41.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

46.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.