Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Henry James

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Joel, Billy

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

Pareto, Vilfredo