Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Henry James

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Peter McWilliams

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Bradshaw, John

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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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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

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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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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 are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Joel, Billy

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