Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Proverb, German

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Garry Marshall

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nadine Stair

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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.