Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Pomfret

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Pearl Buck

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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