Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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.

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

Henry James

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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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 painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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 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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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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