Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Confucius

10.

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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Donald Foster

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

21.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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 man's errors are his portals of discovery.