Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Joel, Billy

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Battista, Orlando A.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

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

Donald Foster

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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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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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