Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Joel, Billy

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rostand, Jean

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Donald Foster

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Henry James

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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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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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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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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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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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip