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 trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Nadine Stair

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Bradshaw, John

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Waitley, Denis