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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Peter McWilliams

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Waitley, Denis

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Gingrich, Newt

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Garry Marshall

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.