Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Confucius

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Niels Bohr

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

Ford, Henry

10.

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

11.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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 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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

39.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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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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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Elbert Hubbard