Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Morita, Akio

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Mayo, William James

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Henry James

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

26.

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

28.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Sophia Loren

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

39.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Battista, Orlando A.