Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Henry James

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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 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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry C. Link

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Confucius

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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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