Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Buckminster

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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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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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

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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

Proverb, German

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

21.

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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry C. Link

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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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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 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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Peter McWilliams

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

George Bernard Shaw