Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Peter McWilliams

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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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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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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