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

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

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Donald Foster

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

30.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Cullen Hightower

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.