Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Morita, Akio

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

Nadine Stair

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Henry James

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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James