Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Niels Bohr

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Proverb, German

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

19.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gingrich, Newt

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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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