Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Shapira, Gina

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Pearl Buck

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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

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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 one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Wooden, John

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

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