Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Peter McWilliams

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Bradshaw, John

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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 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

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pearl Buck

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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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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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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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 who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

33.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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

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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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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 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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Sophia Loren

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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