Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Hein, Piet

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Donald Foster

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Henry James

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Joel, Billy

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

Confucius

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Elbert Hubbard

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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