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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Garry Marshall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Stair, Nadine

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Henry James

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Peter McWilliams

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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 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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proverb, German

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale