Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Link, Henry C.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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

Shapira, Gina

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

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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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Henry James

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bradshaw, John

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Joel, Billy