Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

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.

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

Confucius

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

Garry Marshall

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

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

Churchill, Winston

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Smith, Harold J.

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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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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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

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous