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

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

12.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Donald Foster

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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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Peter McWilliams

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Proverb, German

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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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 who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

43.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Niels Bohr

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

Boswell, Nelson

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