Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nadine Stair

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Sophia Loren

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pomfret

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

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

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Pearl Buck

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

Bradshaw, John

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Proverb, German

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

Henry C. Link

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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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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