Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Donald Foster

10.

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

11.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

12.

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

14.

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

15.

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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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 best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

18.

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

Ford, Henry

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

20.

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

Pearl Buck

21.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

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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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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

28.

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

29.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Boswell, Nelson

37.

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

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

Henry C. Link

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

49.

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

Garry Marshall

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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.