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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Henry James

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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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Smith, Harold J.

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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