Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Garry Marshall

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Pearl Buck

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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Henry James

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Burnett, Leo