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

1.

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

Boswell, Nelson

2.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

3.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

4.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

5.

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

Proverb, German

6.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

7.

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

8.

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

9.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

11.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

13.

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

Sophia Loren

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

17.

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

18.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

31.

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

Stair, Nadine

32.

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

Ward Cleaver

33.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Shapira, Gina

37.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

38.

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

39.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

40.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

41.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

42.

There is no original truth, only original error.