Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bennett, James Gordon

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Henry James

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

31.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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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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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Jenkins, Josh