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

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

Niels Bohr

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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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 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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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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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Donald Foster