Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bankhead, Tallulah

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Churchill, Winston

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry James

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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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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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

Henry C. Link