Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Einstein, Albert

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proverb, German

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

Donald Foster

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Ford, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.