Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Carnegie, Dale

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

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

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

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

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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nadine Stair

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

Joel, Billy

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Sophia Loren

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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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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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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

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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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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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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