Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bennett, James Gordon

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Hein, Piet

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

Waitley, Denis

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Smith, Harold J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Proverb, German

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren