Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nadine Stair

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Niels Bohr

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

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Confucius

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Henry James

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

Boswell, Nelson

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