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

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

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Peter McWilliams

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry James

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Donald Foster

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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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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

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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