Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

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

Donald Foster

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Hein, Piet

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Henry James

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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 learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Pearl Buck

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nadine Stair

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.