Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Walter Bagehot

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.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bradshaw, John

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Confucius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Boswell, Nelson

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Niels Bohr

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pearl Buck

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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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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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