Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Walter Bagehot

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Joel, Billy

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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Confucius

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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No man fails who does his best...