Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Knight, Philip

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

15.

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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Henry James

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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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