Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nadine Stair

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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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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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Ford, Henry

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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 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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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Knight, Philip

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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 very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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 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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Garry Marshall