Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sophia Loren

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Stair, Nadine

10.

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

Gingrich, Newt

11.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

12.

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

13.

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

15.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

32.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

34.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Confucius

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

42.

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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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

44.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

45.

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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

49.

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

Proverb, German