Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Elbert Hubbard

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No man fails who does his best...