Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

- Lehr, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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.

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Morita, Akio

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

Sophia Loren

10.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

11.

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

12.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

14.

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Henry James

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

30.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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