Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter McWilliams

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Mcwilliams, Peter