Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Battista, Orlando A.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Link, Henry C.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ford, Henry

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

Garry Marshall

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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

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

Wooden, John

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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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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

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Henry James

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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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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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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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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

41.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Confucius

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.

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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

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ward Cleaver