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Mistakes

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Giovanni, Nikki

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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.

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

Confucius

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

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sophia Loren

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug