Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Nadine Stair

2.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

3.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

4.

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

Ford, Henry

5.

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

Carnegie, Dale

6.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

7.

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

8.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

10.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

11.

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

Elbert Hubbard

12.

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

Burnett, Leo

13.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

14.

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

Pearl Buck

15.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

20.

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

Garry Marshall

21.

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

22.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

23.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Peter McWilliams

28.

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

29.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb, German

33.

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

Knight, Philip

34.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

36.

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

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

38.

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

Confucius

39.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

40.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

41.

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

42.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

43.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Joel, Billy

47.

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

48.

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

49.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

50.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr