Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Garry Marshall

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Gingrich, Newt

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Sophia Loren

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

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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

Waitley, Denis

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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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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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 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'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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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