Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

There is no original truth, only original error.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Niels Bohr

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Walter Bagehot

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ward Cleaver

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Shapira, Gina

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar