Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Stair, Nadine

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

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sophia Loren

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

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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.

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Pearl Buck

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

34.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

39.

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

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

41.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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 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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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