Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Sophia Loren

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Henry James

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

Confucius

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Walter Bagehot

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Joel, Billy

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

Proverb, German

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry C. Link

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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