Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Hein, Piet

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

Donald Foster

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

Henry James

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

Ford, Henry

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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 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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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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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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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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ward Cleaver

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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 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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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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