Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter McWilliams

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry C. Link

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Henry James

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

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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy