Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Pareto, Vilfredo

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Ford, Henry

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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

Garry Marshall

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Einstein, Albert

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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

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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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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Cullen Hightower

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw