Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Stair, Nadine

2.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

3.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

4.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

5.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

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

7.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

8.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Ward Cleaver

14.

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

Nadine Stair

15.

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

Boswell, Nelson

16.

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

Rostand, Jean

17.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

18.

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

19.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

20.

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

Joel, Billy

21.

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

Peter McWilliams

22.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

23.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

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

25.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

26.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

29.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

30.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

31.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

32.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Garry Marshall

36.

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

37.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Pearl Buck

39.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

40.

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