Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Link, Henry C.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Jenkins, Josh

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

10.

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

Peter McWilliams

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Ward Cleaver

13.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Donald Foster

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

28.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

29.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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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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

35.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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

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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

40.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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