Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, German

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John