Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Einstein, Albert

2.

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

Knight, Philip

3.

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

Henry C. Link

4.

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

Pearl Buck

5.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

6.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

7.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

8.

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

9.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

10.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

11.

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

Henry James

12.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

13.

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

Ward Cleaver

14.

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

15.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

16.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

17.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

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

19.

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

20.

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

21.

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

22.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

23.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

24.

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

Bradshaw, John

25.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

26.

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

Proverb, German

27.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

Garry Marshall

29.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

Smith, Harold J.

31.

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

Shapira, Gina

32.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

33.

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

34.

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

Link, Henry C.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

38.

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

39.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

40.

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

41.

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

44.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

45.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

46.

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

Peter McWilliams

47.

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

Confucius

48.

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

49.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

50.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von