Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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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

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

Pearl Buck

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah