Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

10.

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

11.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

12.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

18.

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

Ford, Henry

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

20.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

21.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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

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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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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.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

27.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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

39.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Joel, Billy

45.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

46.

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

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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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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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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

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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