Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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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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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Cullen Hightower

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Sophia Loren

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry C. Link

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.