Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Joel, Billy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Garry Marshall

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

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

26.

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

Link, Henry C.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, German

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

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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Waitley, Denis