Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

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

Confucius

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Bradshaw, John

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Stair, Nadine

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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 a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry C. Link

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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