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

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

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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Henry James

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Link, Henry C.