Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Garry Marshall

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Stair, Nadine

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Boswell, Nelson

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Joel, Billy

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Proverb, German

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Peter McWilliams