Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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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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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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 who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

15.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Stair, Nadine

25.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Henry James

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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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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

32.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

33.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, German

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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery