Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Henry James

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

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophia Loren

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

Donald Foster

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

13.

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

Proverb, German

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Bradshaw, John

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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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 clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

33.

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

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Link, Henry C.

43.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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