Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

12.

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

Wooden, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pomfret

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

32.

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

Henry James

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

35.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Confucius

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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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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus