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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Peter McWilliams

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ford, Henry

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Donald Foster

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

Walter Bagehot

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Proverb, German

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Cullen Hightower

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

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