Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Donald Foster

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Boswell, Nelson

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Sophia Loren

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

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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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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