Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Confucius

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Henry James

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Taylor, Jeremy