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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

18.

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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Henry C. Link

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

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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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Shapira, Gina

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