Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- Bankhead, Tallulah

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Shapira, Gina

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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Bradshaw, John

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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

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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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