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

1.

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

2.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

3.

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

4.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

5.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

7.

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

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

10.

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

Jenkins, Josh

11.

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

12.

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

Donald Foster

13.

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

14.

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

Boswell, Nelson

15.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

16.

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

17.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

21.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

22.

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

23.

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

Morita, Akio

24.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

25.

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

Link, Henry C.

26.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

27.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

28.

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

29.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

30.

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

31.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

32.

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

Ward Cleaver

33.

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

34.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

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

Pomfret

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

41.

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

42.

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

Sophia Loren

43.

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

Elbert Hubbard

44.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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