Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Henry C. Link

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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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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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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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, 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

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Henry James

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Peter McWilliams

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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 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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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.