Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Proverb, German

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

Battista, Orlando A.

33.

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

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Henry James

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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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

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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