Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

No man fails who does his best...

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

2.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

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

4.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

5.

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

6.

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

Carnegie, Dale

7.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

8.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

9.

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

Sophia Loren

10.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

12.

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

Stair, Nadine

13.

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

Niels Bohr

14.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

15.

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

16.

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

Garry Marshall

17.

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

Peter McWilliams

18.

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

Pearl Buck

19.

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

20.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

21.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

24.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

25.

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

Walter Bagehot

26.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

27.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

29.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

31.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

32.

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

Nadine Stair

33.

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

34.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

36.

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.

37.

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

38.

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

Elbert Hubbard

39.

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

40.

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

Peter McWilliams

41.

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

Link, Henry C.

42.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

46.

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

Jenkins, Josh

47.

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

48.

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

49.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

50.

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

Knight, Philip