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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Nadine Stair

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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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

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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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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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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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