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, 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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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.

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

Nadine Stair

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Peter McWilliams

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

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

Hein, Piet

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Ford, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Morita, Akio

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Bradshaw, John

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Waitley, Denis

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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