Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Wooden, John

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Rostand, Jean

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Ford, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, German

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

Boswell, Nelson

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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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.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.