Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

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

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Ward Cleaver

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Joel, Billy

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Boswell, Nelson

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

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