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

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

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

10.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

11.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Boswell, Nelson

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Henry C. Link

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Bradshaw, John

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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