Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

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

Hein, Piet

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Ward Cleaver

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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

Sophia Loren

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.