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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Burnett, Leo

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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'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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bradshaw, John

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Joel, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

Stair, Nadine