Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Sophia Loren

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ward Cleaver

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

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Pomfret

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Burnett, Leo

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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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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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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Henry C. Link

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.