Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Link, Henry C.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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 dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

13.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy