Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

13.

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.

14.

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

Pomfret

16.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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

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

22.

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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

25.

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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Garry Marshall

28.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

31.

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

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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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Waitley, Denis

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Henry James

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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