Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sophia Loren

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Henry James

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Nadine Stair

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

Joel, Billy

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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 nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Proverb, German

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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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