Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

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

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Confucius

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Henry James

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Ford, Henry