Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

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.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Knight, Philip

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

Churchill, Winston

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

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Henry C. Link

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

Joel, Billy

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Pearl Buck

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

42.

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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Waitley, Denis

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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