Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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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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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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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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Niels Bohr

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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