Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Bradshaw, John

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pomfret

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Sophia Loren

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

Gingrich, Newt

28.

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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, German

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

Nadine Stair

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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