Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Confucius

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pearl Buck

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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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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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