Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

- Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Hein, Piet

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Nadine Stair

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

Waitley, Denis

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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 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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Henry C. Link

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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 be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Bradshaw, John

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.