Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nadine Stair

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

Confucius

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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 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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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Pomfret

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