MISTAKES QUOTES V

quotations about mistakes

I could take the greatest deal-makers of all time and they've always had something that didn't quite work out. You never want to put yourself in the position where something not working out is bigger than what you are and therefore takes you down. It's got to be in smaller chunks. In all cases, I want to learn something from things that didn't quite work out and learn, so that it doesn't happen again or so that in the future, you make great decisions. You don't want to make the same mistake twice and you have to learn that early on in your life.

DONALD TRUMP

Forbes, October 3, 2011

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I never make the same mistake twice. I make it five or six times, you know, just to be sure.

ANONYMOUS

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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

Oh, the Things I Know


I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

TONY BENN

Arguments for Socialism

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Every step that I take is another mistake to you.

LINKIN PARK

"Numb"


What an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.

RANSOM RIGGS

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

CHARLES DARWIN

letter to A. Stephen Wilson, March 5, 1879

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We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


Even honest men mistake oftener in their own favor than in other peoples.

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters and Reflections

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Mistakes occur through haste, never through doing a thing leisurely.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Lack of recent information is responsible for more mistakes of judgment than erroneous reasoning.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

attributed, "The Living Law", Harper's Weekly, February 26, 1916

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To err is human, but it feels divine.

MAE WEST

The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

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Mistakes are road signs pointing you back to the proper path.

DARIN PENZERA

Heroic Egoism


It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

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Those who learn from their mistakes, are achievers and those who keep on crying on their failures, are losers.

SANJEEV KUMAR

31 Distinctive Qualities for Becoming Rich


There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Major-General Armstrong, March 26, 1781

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