Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Einstein, Albert

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

10.

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

11.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

12.

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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

15.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

17.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

18.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Joel, Billy

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

Confucius

26.

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

Hein, Piet

27.

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

28.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

29.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

30.

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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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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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

33.

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Donald Foster

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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