Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Niels Bohr

10.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

11.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

12.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Sophia Loren

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

Donald Foster

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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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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

30.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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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 must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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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

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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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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