Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

29.

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

31.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

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

39.

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

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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 road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet