Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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 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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Henry C. Link

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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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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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Garry Marshall

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pearl Buck

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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 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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis