Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Smith, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Henry C. Link

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nadine Stair

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Confucius

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.