Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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 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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Henry C. Link

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Joel, Billy

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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