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

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

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Joel, Billy

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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

12.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

14.

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

Ford, Henry

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

32.

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

33.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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 who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Einstein, Albert

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

48.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina