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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Henry James

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

Pomfret

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

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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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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

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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Henry C. Link

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

25.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

27.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

28.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

29.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Confucius

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

35.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

40.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Ward Cleaver

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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