Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Stair, Nadine

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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.

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Hein, Piet

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Ward Cleaver

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Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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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's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston