Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Henry James

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Elbert Hubbard

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Joel, Billy

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

Ward Cleaver

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

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

Hein, Piet

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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 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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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

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

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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