People Make Mistakes Quotes

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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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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• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

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  I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Strong, Mistake

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• Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Failure, Acceptance

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• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  Jack Welch

  Inspiring, Teacher, Motivation

  Jack Welch, John A. Byrne (2003). “Jack: Straight from the Gut”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

  Isabel Gillies

  Inspirational, Marriage, Hurt

  Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mistake, Warrior

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 14, 2010

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• Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

  Brandon Mull

  Leadership, Real, Mistake

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

  Ross Perot

  Mistake, Moving, Creativity

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• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  Adam Osborne

  Mistake, Technology, Thinking

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• All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mistake, Marijuana, Law

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.215, The New Press

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• Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mistake, People, Forgiving

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• People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying you [Bernie Sanders] did it for any kind of financial advantage.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, People, Financial

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

  Akshay Kumar

  Mistake, Land, People

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• Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mistake, Judging People, Likes

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• ‎It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

  Po Bronson

  Mistake, People, Lessons

  "What Should I Do With My Life?". Book by Po Bronson, February 28, 2013.

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• People make mistakes and I'm certainly not saying Bernie Sanders did it for any kind of financial advantage. What we've got to do as Democrats - what we've got to do as Democrats is to be united to actually solve these problems. And what I believe is that I have a better track record and a better opportunity to actually get that job done.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Mistake, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.

  Lance Henriksen

  Mistake, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

  Keith Rabois

  Mistake, People, Delegates

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Mother, Father, Mistake

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