Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Niels Bohr

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

10.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Henry C. Link

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Confucius

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sophia Loren

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Link, Henry C.

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

28.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

29.

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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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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

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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.

46.

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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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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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