Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Link, Henry C.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Garry Marshall

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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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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 over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Niels Bohr

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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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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 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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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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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