Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Knight, Philip

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Proverb, German

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Confucius

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

Nadine Stair

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

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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 made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Garry Marshall

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Bradshaw, John

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Henry C. Link

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

Jenkins, Josh