Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Ward Cleaver

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Ford, Henry

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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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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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

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Garry Marshall

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