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

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

Henry James

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

Nadine Stair

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Pearl Buck

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Henry C. Link

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Niels Bohr

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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

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