Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- Bankhead, Tallulah

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

10.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

11.

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

Garry Marshall

12.

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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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

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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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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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

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

26.

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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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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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 said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

30.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

31.

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

32.

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 trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Fuller, Buckminster

35.

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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.