Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bennett, James Gordon

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Giovanni, Nikki

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Henry C. Link

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

10.

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

11.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

12.

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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Ford, Henry

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

19.

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

Nadine Stair

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Peter McWilliams

28.

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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hein, Piet

41.

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

42.

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