Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Joel, Billy

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Henry James

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

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Garry Marshall

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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