Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

Ward Cleaver

6.

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

Sophia Loren

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Boswell, Nelson

13.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

14.

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

Smith, Harold J.

15.

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

Burnett, Leo

16.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

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

18.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

19.

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.

20.

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

22.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

23.

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

24.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

25.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

26.

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

27.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

32.

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

33.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

34.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

36.

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

37.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

38.

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

39.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

40.

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

Morita, Akio

41.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

42.

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

43.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

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

45.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

46.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles