Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

4.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

5.

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

Wooden, John

6.

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

Ford, Henry

7.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

8.

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

Bradshaw, John

9.

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

10.

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

Jenkins, Josh

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Shapira, Gina

14.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

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

Elbert Hubbard

17.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

18.

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

19.

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

Pearl Buck

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

29.

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

George Bernard Shaw

30.

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

Henry James

31.

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

32.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

33.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

34.

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

35.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

36.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

37.

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

38.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

39.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

40.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

41.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

42.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

43.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

45.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

49.

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

50.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis