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

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Link, Henry C.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

21.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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 avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pomfret

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Wooden, John

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Shapira, Gina

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