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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

Pomfret

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Niels Bohr

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

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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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 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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis