Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nadine Stair

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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

Confucius

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pomfret

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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