Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry James

Best Quotes about 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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Henry James

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

Gingrich, Newt

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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