Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Stair, Nadine

Best Quotes about Mistakes

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Wooden, John

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

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

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

Nadine Stair

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Donald Foster

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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Bradshaw, John

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Stair, Nadine

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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