Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about 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.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

Donald Foster

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

Waitley, Denis

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Joel, Billy

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bradshaw, John

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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