Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Nadine Stair

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Walter Bagehot

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Knight, Philip

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

Henry James

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