Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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.

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Nadine Stair

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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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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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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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 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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean