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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Proverb, German

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

Peter McWilliams

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sophia Loren

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Smith, Harold J.