Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Garry Marshall

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

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Churchill, Winston

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

24.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

41.

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

Nadine Stair

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

Sophia Loren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von