Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

2.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

3.

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

Bradshaw, John

4.

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

5.

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

Cullen Hightower

6.

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

Shapira, Gina

7.

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

8.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

10.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

11.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

12.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

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

14.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

16.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

17.

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

Henry C. Link

18.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

19.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

20.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

21.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

22.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

23.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

24.

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

25.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

26.

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

27.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

28.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

29.

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

30.

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

Nadine Stair

31.

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

Donald Foster

32.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

33.

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

Stair, Nadine

34.

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

35.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Link, Henry C.

40.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

41.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

42.

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

43.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

45.

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

Ward Cleaver

46.

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