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

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Ward Cleaver

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

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rostand, Jean

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Joel, Billy

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Shapira, Gina

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Smith, Harold J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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