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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Burnett, Leo

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophia Loren

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

11.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis