Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Henry James

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Joel, Billy

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Donald Foster

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Confucius

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Henry C. Link

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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