Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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 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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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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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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Joel, Billy

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

Donald Foster

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pearl Buck

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

Henry James

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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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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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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

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

Sophia Loren

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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