Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

10.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

11.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

12.

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

13.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

14.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

16.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

18.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

19.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

21.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

24.

Aragon, Louis

25.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

28.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

29.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

30.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

31.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

32.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

33.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

34.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

35.

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

36.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

37.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

40.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

42.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

43.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

44.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

45.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

46.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

47.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

48.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

49.

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

50.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard