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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Jones, Franklin P.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nadine Stair

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Pomfret

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Henry James

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Donald Foster

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

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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