Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Donald Foster

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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

Nadine Stair

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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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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

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Henry James

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hein, Piet