Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Walter Bagehot

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr