Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Pareto, Vilfredo

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Walter Bagehot

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

29.

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

30.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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 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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Joel, Billy

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Confucius

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