Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Mistakes

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shapira, Gina

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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.

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

Gingrich, Newt

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Henry C. Link

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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 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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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 is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.