Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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

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

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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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

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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sophia Loren

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Henry James

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

Confucius

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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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 greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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