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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Carnegie, Dale

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor