Mistake Quotes - Page 4

• When joy disappears, look for your mistake

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Joy, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Past, Literature

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• Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

  Holly Near

  Storytelling, Force, Behinds

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• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Self, People, Leader

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• As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

  Jack Canfield

  Motivational, Dream, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Oct 30, 2012

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• No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Errors, Law, Persist

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Learning, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.323

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• Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Ambition, Sloth, Suffering

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Keys, Giving, Inner Peace

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• Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

  Jack Canfield

  Process, Making Mistakes, Learning From Mistakes

  Twitter post from May 02, 2014

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• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

  Salvador Dali

  Sacred, Contrary, Rationalize

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• We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

  King Hussein I

  Truth, Dark, Reality

  "Remarks during a conference of Arab chiefs of state". The New York Times, p. 6, August 31, 1967.

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• The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Regret, Common Sense, Dorian Grey

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• 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

  Persistence, Swim, Way

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• Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Peace, Mean, Doe

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• Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, have babies, or be who we are. After all, things change, so do cities, people come into your life and they go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart... and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away

  Candace Bushnell

  Baby, Falling In Love, Heart

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• You will fail many times but in failing you'll learn and in learning you'll find your way. Remember, there are no mistakes in life but only lessons, and lessons will keep on repeating until learned

  Paulo Coelho

  Lessons, Way, Remember

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• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

  William J. Clinton

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Attitude

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• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Failure

  1859 Self-Help, ch.11.

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• As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

  Mel Brooks

  Gambling, Spinning Around, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Suffering, Prison

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.237, 谷月社

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Music, Teaching

  1889 Die Go« tzen-Da«mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols, translated by R J Hollingdale)

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• It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Spring, Wells

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.89, Da Capo Press

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• As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.42, New World Library

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  The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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