Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Stair, Nadine

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Pearl Buck

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Confucius

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry James

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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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