Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry C. Link

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pomfret

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pearl Buck

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Confucius

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.