Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Ford, Henry

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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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

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry James

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