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

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

Donald Foster

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

Jones, Franklin P.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Link, Henry 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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Ford, Henry

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

Nadine Stair

42.

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

Garry Marshall

43.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.