Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jenkins, Josh

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's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walter Bagehot

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Sophia Loren

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

28.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Henry James

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wooden, John

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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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 man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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