Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Boswell, Nelson

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shapira, Gina

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Knight, Philip

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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