Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Knight, Philip

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

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

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Proverb, German

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sophia Loren

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles