Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Sophia Loren

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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 isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pearl Buck

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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 learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Walter Bagehot