Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nadine Stair

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Wooden, John

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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Waitley, Denis

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sophia Loren

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

Ford, Henry

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

Gingrich, Newt

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Elbert Hubbard

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Henry C. Link