When you make a mistake, admit it; learn from it and don’t repeat it.
Bear Bryant
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities.
Edith Johnson
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
George Soros
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.
Alexander Pope
To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.
Julius Erving
A man may make mistakes, but he isn't a failure until he starts blaming someone else.
John Wooden
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
William Somerset Maugham
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.
Edward Kock
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert Schuller
We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake.
Bobby Bowden
Non-creative people think that it is a sign of weakness to say, "I made a mistake." On the contrary, it is actually a sign of mental maturity, personal strength and individual character. Remember, everybody makes mistakes every single day.
Brian Tracy
Many people are so concerned with being right that all their mental energy is consumed by stonewalling, bluffing, blaming and denying. If you're wrong, admit it and get on to the solution or the next step.
Brian Tracy
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert Brocknow
Too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly plowing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes. I believe in the motto, "Try and try again." But the way I read it, it says, "Try, then stop and think. Then try again."
William Singleton
The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try.
Peter Drucker
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on our gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
William Bolitho
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
William Mayo
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow
When you punish your people for making a mistake or falling short of a goal, you create an environment of extreme caution, even fearfulness. In sports it's similar to playing "not to lose" - a formula that often brings on defeat.
John Wooden
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
David Burns
Not to acknowledge a mistake, not to correct it and learn from it, is a mistake of a different order. It usually puts a person on a self-deceiving, self-justifying path, often involving rationalization (rational lies) to self and to others. This second mistake, this cover-up, empowers the first, giving it disproportionate importance, and causes far deeper injury to self.
Stephen Covey
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The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.
Brian Tracy
There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
Timothy Ferriss
The first is the result of a decision to act - to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it's impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged. Fortune favors the bold.
The second is the result of a decision of sloth - to not do something - wherein we refuse to change a bad situation out of fear despite having all the facts. This is how learning experiences become terminal punishments, bad relationships become bad marriages, and poor job choices become lifelong prison sentences.
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If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
Frank Wilczek
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Elbert Hubbard
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live.
Alfred Adler
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
John Maxwell
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are natural. Instead of treating them as disasters, make them easy to acknowledge and easy to fix.
Paul Graham
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