Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Hein, Piet

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pearl Buck

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Peter McWilliams

11.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

18.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

33.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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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

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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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No man fails who does his best...

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar