Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Gingrich, Newt

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

27.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Einstein, Albert

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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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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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