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

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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.

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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 have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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