Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bradshaw, John

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Joel, Billy

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Knight, Philip

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

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

Proverb, German

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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

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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