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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Donald Foster

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Einstein, Albert

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pearl Buck

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Henry James

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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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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.

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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