Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

- Lehr, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Henry C. Link

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Elbert Hubbard

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

14.

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Confucius

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stair, Nadine

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

28.

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

29.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Walter Bagehot