Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Einstein, Albert

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Ford, Henry

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Joel, Billy

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Link, Henry C.

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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

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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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Churchill, Winston

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Knight, Philip

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

Rostand, Jean

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

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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.

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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