Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Gingrich, Newt

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Peter McWilliams

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nadine Stair

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Joel, Billy

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Garry Marshall

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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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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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 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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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Einstein, Albert

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich