Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Confucius

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Garry Marshall

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Smith, Harold J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Hugh White

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Sophia Loren

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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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