Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nadine Stair

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

Sophia Loren

10.

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Joel, Billy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Walter Bagehot

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Niels Bohr

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

Donald Foster

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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