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

1.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

2.

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

Ward Cleaver

3.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

4.

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

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

6.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

7.

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

8.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

9.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

10.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

18.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

19.

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

Joel, Billy

20.

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

21.

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

Confucius

22.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

23.

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

24.

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

Walter Bagehot

25.

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

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Knight, Philip

29.

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

Link, Henry C.

30.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

31.

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

Shapira, Gina

32.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

33.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

34.

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

Burnett, Leo

35.

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

36.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

37.

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

38.

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

Morita, Akio

39.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

40.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

41.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

43.

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

44.

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

Stair, Nadine

45.

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

46.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

47.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

48.

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

Pearl Buck

49.

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

50.

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