Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Garry Marshall

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Henry C. Link

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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

10.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

11.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

12.

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

13.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

18.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

19.

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

20.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

21.

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

Wooden, John

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

25.

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

Donald Foster

26.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

28.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

29.

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

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

Walter Bagehot

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Stair, Nadine

37.

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

Garry Marshall

38.

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

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Jenkins, Josh

41.

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

42.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

43.

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

Gingrich, Newt

44.

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

45.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

49.

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

Pearl Buck

50.

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