Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

- Augsburger, David

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Henry James

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Proverb, German

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Confucius

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

Nadine Stair

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boswell, Nelson

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