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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry James

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

Proverb, German

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

Donald Foster

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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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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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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Pearl Buck

28.

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Link, Henry C.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis