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Quotes About Mistakes

At an English boarding school in the early 1960s, he quickly discovered, there were three bad mistakes you could make, but if you made only two of the three you could be forgiven. The mistakes were: to be foreign; to be clever; and to be bad at games […]. He made all three mistakes. He was foreign, clever, non-sportif.
~ Salman Rushdie
Kalbin hatalar?ndan birinin ne büyük ahmakl?k olduÄŸu anla??ld???nda, kendimizi aptal gibi hissederiz ve yak?nlar?m?za, sevdiklerimize bizi neden vakitlice kendimizden kurtarmad?klar?n? sorar?z. Ancak bu, aram?za kimsenin giremeyeceÄŸi bir düÅŸmand?r.
~ Salman Rushdie
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
~ John Kessel
What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.
~ Lee Trevino
Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
~ John J. McCloy
To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
~ Haki R. Madhubuti
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.
~ Christine Caine
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.
~ Bill James
Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
~ Steve Maraboli
What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.
~ Abdul Kalam
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
~ Zig Ziglar
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
~ Cato the Elder
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
~ Henry Cloud
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~ Conrad Hilton
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
~ William E. Gladstone
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
~ Arsene Wenger
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
~ Thomas J. Watson
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.
~ Russell L. Ackoff
Success has many fathers, failure many sons.
~ Ryan Ross
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
~ James Dyson