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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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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

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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.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Jenkins, Josh

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Nadine Stair

31.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Knight, Philip

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

39.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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

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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.

Jung, Carl

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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