Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

- Fuller, Buckminster

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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

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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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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Link, Henry C.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry C. Link

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon