Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Hein, Piet

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Henry C. Link

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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, 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