Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

2.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Rostand, Jean

6.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

7.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

9.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

10.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

11.

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

Nadine Stair

12.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

13.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

14.

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

Shapira, Gina

15.

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

16.

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

17.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

18.

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

Smith, Harold J.

19.

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

Joel, Billy

20.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

23.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

24.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

27.

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

Boswell, Nelson

28.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

36.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

37.

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

38.

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

39.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

40.

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

41.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

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

Stair, Nadine

43.

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

Henry C. Link

44.

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