Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

10.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

11.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

12.

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

13.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

14.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

17.

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

18.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

19.

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

Walter Bagehot

20.

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

Shapira, Gina

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Donald Foster

28.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

29.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

32.

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

Link, Henry C.

33.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

34.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

35.

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

Garry Marshall

36.

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

37.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

39.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

40.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Gates, Bill

44.

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

Boswell, Nelson

45.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

49.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

50.

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

Fuller, Buckminster