Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Henry C. Link

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

10.

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

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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

13.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Hein, Piet

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Joel, Billy

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

28.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Morita, Akio

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Ford, Henry

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

Sophia Loren

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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 are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Confucius

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert