Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

- Daumal, Rene

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Stair, Nadine

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Joel, Billy

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Jenkins, Josh

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

10.

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

11.

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

12.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

14.

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

Sophia Loren

15.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

16.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

17.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

18.

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

19.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

Burnett, Leo

23.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

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

26.

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

28.

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

Gingrich, Newt

29.

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

30.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

31.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

32.

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

Henry James

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

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

Pomfret

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

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

Peter McWilliams

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

46.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

47.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

50.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug