Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Garry Marshall

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Ford, Henry

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Joel, Billy

18.

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

19.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Henry James

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

33.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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.