Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Link, Henry C.

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

14.

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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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

20.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pearl Buck

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Walter Bagehot

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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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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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.