Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Peter McWilliams

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.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bennett, James Gordon

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

14.

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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

19.

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

Peter McWilliams

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

24.

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

34.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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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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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.