Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Shapira, Gina

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.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Henry C. Link

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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Sophia Loren

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

Walter Bagehot

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Churchill, Winston

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Boswell, Nelson