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

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

19.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Morita, Akio

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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 who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bradshaw, John

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