Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

- Davis, Miles

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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.

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

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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

11.

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

12.

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.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nadine Stair

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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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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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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

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

Hein, Piet

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

42.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Donald Foster

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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

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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