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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Knight, Philip

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

Wooden, John

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.

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

Burnett, Leo

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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

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

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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.

Hein, Piet

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Sophia Loren

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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 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 again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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