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Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Author: Vince Lombardi
Topics: Mistake, Mistakes, Necessary, Process, Served

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Author: Vince Lombardi
Topics: Enough, Learning, Learning from Mistakes, Mistake, Trying

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

Author: Gail Kelly
Topics: Age, Famous, Leaders, Mistake, Public, Relations, Visible

The best way to change is to make mistakes. You can learn from your mistakes and then keep moving on.

Author: Keanu Reeves
Topics: Famous, Mistake, Moving

Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Judge, Judgement, Judging, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistaken

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Mistake, Opening

Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes

Author: Thom Mayne
Topics: Comfortable, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Mistake, Place

Nobody is guaranteed to be a starter; thinking that would be a mistake.

Author: Thibaut Courtois
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Guaranteed, Mistake, Thinking

There’s something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you’re setting yourself up for a mistake.

Author: Tim Burton
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Meaningful, Mistake, Movies, People

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision

Author: Thomas Sowell
Topics: Famous, Mistake, Visions

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

Author: K. A. Applegate
Topics: Famous, Growing up, Learning, Mistake, Play

I think it’s a mistake to work on success in career. I’ve worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

Author: K'naan
Topics: Career, Famous, Inspirational, Mistake, Passion, Regret, Success

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Darkness, Famous, Horror, Mistake, Silence, Solitude

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Darkness, Famous, Horror, Mistake, Silence, Solitude

Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I’ll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Famous, Honesty, Mistake

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Famous, Love, Mistake, Women

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Experiences, Failure, Famous, Feelings, Frequency, Growth, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, People, Progress, Remember, Success, Times

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Experience, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Growth, Improvement, Knowledge, Learned, Learning, Life, Made, Meaningful, Mistake, Never, Progress, Reflection, Wisdom

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

Author: Theodor Herzl
Topics: Learn, Learning, Missions, Mistake, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Satisfaction, Satisfied

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Topics: Encourage, Famous, Inspirational, Madman, Make, Mistake, Peaceful

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Topics: Explain, Least, Mistake

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Goals, God, God willing, Learning, Learning from Mistakes, Missionary, Mistake

Without music, life would be a mistake.

 

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Missionary, Mistake, Music, Musical Instruments

My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Comfortable, Kill, Kill Me, Mission, Mistake, Multiply, Murder

The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.

Author: Ian Caldwell
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake

The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.

Author: Robert E. Lee
Topics: Education, Famous, Life, Military, Mistake

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Author: Iain Banks
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Pattern

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Author: Hulk Hogan
Topics: Business, Famous, Looking, Meaningful, Mistake, Start

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Author: Steven Alexander Wright
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Famous, Fearing, Fearless, Feelings, Great, Life, Meaningful, Missionary, Mistake, Sudden, Suffer

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hard, Hard conditions, Inspirational, Learning, Learning from Mistakes, Life, Married, Marrying, Meaningful, Mission, Mistake, Never, Never Ending, Positive, Prosperous

I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Author: Selena Marie Gomez
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Famous, Greater, Inspirational, Lesson, Life, life lesson, Little, Meaningful, Mistake, Nobody, Nothing, People, Positive

I’ve made mistakes I could have treated you better I let you get away There goes my happily ever after

Author: Bruno Mars
Topics: Getting, Happiness, Happy, Life, Life Choices, Life Cycle, Missions, Mistake, Treat

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Decision, Famous, Human Mind, Inspirational, leader, Leaders, Leadership, Learning from Mistakes, Loss, Losses, Meaningful, Mind, Mistake, Own mistakes, People, Persistence, Positive, Superior, Superiority, Willing, Willingness

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

 

Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Christmas, Famous, God, God willing, Life, Meaningful, Missions, Mistake, Something for nothing, Sometimes

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

 

Author: Confucius
Topics: Crimes, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mission, Mistake, Valuable, Valuable lesson, Valuable things

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

Author: Ray Lewis
Topics: Famous, God, Mistake

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

 

Author: Confucius
Topics: Correct, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Mission, Missions, Mistake, Valuable, Valuable lesson

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don’t do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

 

Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Heart, Heart disease, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Level, Level-headed, Mission, Mistake, Trying, Until

A cup final is all about seizing the moment. You cannot put right a mistake or a missed opportunity the following week.

Author: Paul Scholes
Topics: Famous, Final, Missed, Mistake, Moment, Opportunity, Seizing, Week

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Persecuted, Vulgar

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Famous, Human, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mistake, Right

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

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mistake

This isn’t a pizza, this is a mistake. This is an Italian tragedy.

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Topics: Famous, Insult, Mistake, Pizza, Tragedy

The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Person, Tried

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decision, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Mistake

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

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Things

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Dangerous, Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Most, Wrong

The people I don’t understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I’m always around nature. I look at everything and think, ‘Who couldn’t believe there’s a God? Is all this a mistake?’ It just blows me away.

Author: Paul Walker
Topics: Always, Everything, Famous, God, Meaningful, Mistake, Nature, People, Understand

And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Decision, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Mistake

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Author: Douglas Adams
Topics: Famous, Major Work, Meaningful, Mistake, Problems

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

Author: Patrick Mahomes
Topics: Famous, Learn, Meaningful, Mistake, Never

All I try to do is learn from every mistake I make so that I don’t do it again.

Author: Patrick Mahomes
Topics: Famous, Learn, Meaningful, Mistake, Positive

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

Author: Paris Hilton
Topics: Famous, Love, Married, Meaningful, Mistake, People, Rush

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Author: Douglas Adams
Topics: Common, Designs, Famous, Fools, Meaningful, Mistake, Underestimate

I was actually disappointed because I thought the mistakes I made is that people misinterpret my passion for anger.

 

Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Disposition, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Made, Meaningful, Men of thought., Missionary, Mistake, People, People Respect, Personal passions, Preparation, Prepare for Danger

You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

Author: Dante Alighieri
Topics: Effort, Famous, Goal, Hardworking, Learn, Meaningful, Mistake, Rarely

We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Cheerful, Christ, Christian, Friend, Friendship, Hope for peace, Hopeful, Measure, Mission, Mistake, Peace, Peaceably

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Author: Otto von Bismarck
Topics: Famous, Fool, Learn, Mistake

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Author: Dalai Lama
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Goal, God, God willing, Good, Heart, Heart Rate, Mistake, Truly, Trust

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Content, Double, Little, Little fun, Little Things, Mission, Missionary, Mistake, Satisfaction, Satisfies

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Topics: Mistake, Politics

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Topics: Enemy, Famous, Interrupt, Mistake

That was the only mistake Robert E Lee ever made. He gave suggestions instead of orders and it cost him the war.

Author: George S. Patton
Topics: Famous, Historical perspective, Leadership, Mistake

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth; and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Famous, Knowledge, Learning, Least Reason, Life, Man, Meaningful, Missing, Mistake, Mistrust, Simplest truth, Simplicity, Trusted, Truth

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good

Author: C. S. Lewis
Topics: Evil, Famous, Feeling good, Feelings, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Necessary

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Alive, Characters, Dogma, Famous, Inspirational, Mistake, Science, Scrupulous

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat.

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Defeat, Engagement, Great, Mistake, Think, Thinking mind

That’s just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don’t want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain’t no disgrace. That was my fix exactly.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Consequences, Disgrace, Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Person

I receive reproof when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I have committed it.

Author: George Washington
Topics: Accept, Criticism, Expressing, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Mistake, Willingness

Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Author: Marcel Proust
Topics: Alone, Caring, Common, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mistake, People, Strong, Wanted, Weakness

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America’s mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life

Author: Audre Lorde
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Societal Expectations

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Desire, Great, Mistake

I made my fair share of mistakes

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Topics: Experiences, Fair, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Mistake, Positive

One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: God, Human, Leading, Mistake

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Focus, Life, Mistake, Really

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Experience, Learn, Learned, Mistake, Teach

You will be wounded many times in your life. You’ll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God’s way of saying, “Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction.” It’s just an experience, just an experience.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Excuse, Experience, Failure, God, Life, Mistake

Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Failure, Lesson, Mistake, Teacher

Don’t ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

Author: Mae West
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Same

Tell me that you comin’ back and you just took a break. Maybe I blamed you for everything, that was my mistake. In hindsight I loved your rawness and I loved your edge. ‘Cause it was you who talked me down from jumping off the ledge.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Jumping, Life, Love, Meaningful, Mistake

Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge -acquiring period ends when they finish school.

Author: Napoleon Hill
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Mistake, School, Successful

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Author: Angelina Jolie
Topics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Life, Mistake, Things

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Author: Angelina Jolie
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Learn, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Pain, Suffering, Window

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Country, Equality, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Liberty, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Positive, Promise, World

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Famous, Feminists, Friend, Friends, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Politician, Politics, Professor, Structural, Students

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Author: B.F. Skinner
Topics: Circumstances, Experiences, Failure, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Positive, Simple, Stop

If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Poor, Poor People

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Die, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes, Poor, Positive

I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love.

Author: Leonardo Di Caprio
Topics: Falling In Love, Famous, Man, Mistake, Realized

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Author: Albert Einstein
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Mistake, Mistakes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Author: Albert Einstein
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Mistake, Mistakes, Person, Personal, Tried

If you don’t know where you make your mistakes, that’s your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

Author: Meek Mill
Topics: Knowing, Mistake, Mistakes

I’m not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.

Author: L'Wren Scott
Topics: Customer, Famous, Flaws, Mistake

There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.

Author: Mike Tyson
Topics: Duplicate, Mistake, Wrong

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I’ve probably made

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Company, Mistake, Probably, Running

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