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

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

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Niels Bohr

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

10.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

11.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

17.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

19.

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

Stair, Nadine

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

25.

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

Donald Foster

26.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

29.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

33.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

34.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

35.

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

36.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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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

40.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

46.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von