Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Garry Marshall

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Giovanni, Nikki

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Confucius

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Henry James

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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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