Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Walter Bagehot

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Proverb, German

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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 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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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Sophia Loren

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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