Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Cullen Hightower

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Niels Bohr

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

Sophia Loren

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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