Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

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

Hein, Piet

31.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Sophia Loren