Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Henry James

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

Henry C. Link

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

10.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

13.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

14.

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Smith, Harold J.

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.