Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Hein, Piet

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

Pomfret

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nadine Stair

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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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, 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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Pearl Buck

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

Joel, Billy

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Henry James

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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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