Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pearl Buck

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Nadine Stair

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

12.

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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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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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

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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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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 painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

43.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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