Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gillies, Jerry

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.

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

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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 successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gingrich, Newt

38.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Burnett, Leo

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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

43.

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

Garry Marshall

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Buckminster