Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

- Augsburger, David

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Waitley, Denis

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

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

10.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

12.

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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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

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

18.

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

Wooden, John

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

Peter McWilliams

20.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

22.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

23.

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

24.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Pearl Buck

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

30.

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

31.

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

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Niels Bohr

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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

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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

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

Henry James

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sophia Loren

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.