Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jenkins, Josh

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Jenkins, Josh

2.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

3.

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

4.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

5.

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

Garry Marshall

6.

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

7.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

8.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

9.

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

Peter McWilliams

10.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Smith, Harold J.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Knight, Philip

15.

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

16.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

20.

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.

21.

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

Stair, Nadine

22.

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

23.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

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

25.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

31.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

32.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

36.

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

Gingrich, Newt

37.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

38.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

39.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

40.

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

Link, Henry C.

41.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

46.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard