Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Walter Bagehot

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Pomfret

11.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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

13.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

14.

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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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Ward Cleaver

20.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

21.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

22.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

23.

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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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 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

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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 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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

32.

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

33.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

35.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

36.

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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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