Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

11.

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.

12.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

13.

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

Nadine Stair

15.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

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.

18.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

19.

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

Jenkins, Josh

20.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Boswell, Nelson

28.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

30.

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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

32.

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

33.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

35.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

37.

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

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

Garry Marshall

39.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

40.

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

Gingrich, Newt

41.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

42.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Confucius

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

48.

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

Joel, Billy

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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