Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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 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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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

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Nadine Stair

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pearl Buck

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett