Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Burnett, Leo

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Henry James

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

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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.

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