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

1.

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

Confucius

2.

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

Rostand, Jean

3.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

4.

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

5.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

6.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

7.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

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

9.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

10.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

11.

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

Garry Marshall

12.

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

Donald Foster

13.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

15.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

16.

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

17.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Bradshaw, John

20.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

21.

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

22.

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

Joel, Billy

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

26.

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

Pearl Buck

27.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

28.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Waitley, Denis

34.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

36.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

38.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

39.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

40.

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

Boswell, Nelson

41.

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

42.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

43.

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

44.

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

Ward Cleaver

45.

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

Henry C. Link

46.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

47.

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