Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Stair, Nadine

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morita, Akio

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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