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

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Sophia Loren

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

Proverb, German

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

25.

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

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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Nadine Stair

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

33.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Gingrich, Newt

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