Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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

11.

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

Stair, Nadine

12.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

13.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

14.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

17.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Proverb, German

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

Rostand, Jean

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

28.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

32.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

33.

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

Garry Marshall

34.

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

Morita, Akio

35.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Sophia Loren

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

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

Gingrich, Newt

42.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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

46.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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