Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Gingrich, Newt

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

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

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

Bradshaw, John

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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 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

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Pomfret

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Proverb, German

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Gingrich, Newt

33.

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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Burnett, Leo

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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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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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

46.

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

Garry Marshall

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.