Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Jenkins, Josh

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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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

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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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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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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