Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Shapira, Gina

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Waitley, Denis

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Proverb, German

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Donald Foster

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

Henry James

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

Wooden, John

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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Einstein, Albert

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We can afford almost any mistake once.