Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry C. Link

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

11.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

12.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

14.

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

Stair, Nadine

16.

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

Knight, Philip

17.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

20.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

23.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

24.

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

Cullen Hightower

25.

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

26.

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

27.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

28.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Carnegie, Dale

32.

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

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

Proverb, German

35.

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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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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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

43.

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

Pearl Buck

44.

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Sophia Loren

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett