Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Garry Marshall

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

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

Hein, Piet

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sophia Loren

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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

12.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Pearl Buck

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

25.

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

Gates, Bill

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

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

29.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Henry James

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Taylor, Jeremy