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Quotes about Mistakes

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eleanor_Roosevelt
Contributed by: Carlos. More quotes added by Carlos from all sources
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What has been your biggest mistake?

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

Richard Branson : Gaia Explorer
Richard Branson
Source: Thoroughly postmodern billionaire: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/28/citynews.mondaymediasection
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Zig Ziglar : American master sales trainer, author, motivating speaker
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
 
Contributed by: Kelly Cookson. More quotes added by MsCapriKell from all sources
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Even falling flat on your face is still moving forward.

Anonymous
 
Contributed by: Jenna. More quotes added by barefootgirl from all sources
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry Link
 
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On both sides of a war, how many mothers must face the death of their sons because a politician will not face the death of one misguided opinion?

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
Contributed by: Jim. More quotes added by Jim from all sources
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If you don't make mistakes
you're not working on hard enough problems.
And that's the biggest mistake.

F. Wizelek
Source: www.inspirelist.com
Contributed by: Ellen Janssens. More quotes added by Ellen from all sources
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10. The best single question for testing an organization’s character is: What happens when people make mistakes?

Robert I. Sutton : Gaia Child
Robert Sutton
Source: Bob Sutton: 15 Things I Believe
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone makes a great mistake. No matter how much bread there is, it cannot produce a man: it can only nourish him. Life exists before food. Man's life comes from the very origin of life. Therefore civilization does not follow the forms of production. All social life follows the action of life.

Toyohiko Kagawa
Source: "Jesus and Men's Failures"
Contributed by: Kevin Beck. More quotes added by KevinBeck from all sources
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Find something good in every mistake

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: I don't know
Contributed by: Fatima. More quotes added by Fatima101 from all sources
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We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

Ellen DeGeneres : Gaia Child
Ellen DeGeneres
Source: That's Really Funny!, MJF Books, 2000, p. 133
Contributed by: Matt. More quotes added by CajunGypsy from all sources
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Source: The Quotations Page (attributed)
Contributed by: Matt. More quotes added by CajunGypsy from all sources
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Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana : Spanish-American philosopher & poet
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Source: Unknown
Contributed by: Matt. More quotes added by CajunGypsy from all sources
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Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life’s mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.

Sri Chinmoy : Gaia Explorer
Sri Chinmoy
 
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When you cross things out, that doesn't mean you were wrong, just that you weren't right... yet.

Raphie : Raphie Frank :: Business Artivist
Raphie Frank
 
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Don't let mistakes be so monumental, don't let your love be so confidential, don't let your mind be so darn judgemental, and please let your heart be more influential. Be thankful for all that the spirit provides and be thankful for all that you see without eyes.

Michael Franti
Source: Hey Now Now
Contributed by: Heather. More quotes added by heather from all sources
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Mistakes are meant to be made, nobody is perfect, so be yourself. =)

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
Source: Person
Contributed by: Luna Sarver. More quotes added by Luna from all sources
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A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

George Bernard Shaw : British playwright & novelist
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
Contributed by: Tim Shank. More quotes added by Intrigue from all sources
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A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

George Bernard Shaw : British playwright & novelist
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
 
Contributed by: Tim Shank. More quotes added by Intrigue from all sources
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“Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day.”

Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
 
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Love is powerful but, it needs an opening.  One of the greatest mistakes of love is the illusion that it can conquer all.  If your beloved isn't ready to receive love recognize the signs. 

Warren : Teacher
Warren Cooley
Source: from the Thirteen Rules of Love
Contributed by: Warren Cooley. More quotes added by Warren from all sources
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"I have made to many mistakes to error on this trial."

Kyle McGinty
Source: Myself
Contributed by: ConsequentChoiceTheory. More quotes added by ConsequentChoiceTheory from all sources
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones (1906 - )
 
Contributed by: Mary. More quotes added by Mary_C from all sources
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When you make a mistake, admit it.  If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver
Source: Leave It To Beaver
Contributed by: David. More quotes added by HeyOK from all sources
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Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds

Ralph Waldo Emerson : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
 
Contributed by: David. More quotes added by HeyOK from all sources
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Why make the same mistake twice when there are so many new ones?

unknown : Gaia Child
unknown
 
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

William Connor Magee
 
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I have learned as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to fonts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
 
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche : German philosopher who delivered his philosophy "with a hammer"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
 
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