Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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

Morita, Akio

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Garry Marshall

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

Joel, Billy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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'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.

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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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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry C. Link