Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

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

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, German

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Einstein, Albert

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Nadine Stair

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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