Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Wooden, John

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Garry Marshall

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Confucius

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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 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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Pearl Buck

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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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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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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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Smith, Harold J.