Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

There is no original truth, only original error.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Nadine Stair

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ford, Henry

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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