Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

5.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

6.

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

7.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

8.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

9.

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

Confucius

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

13.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

14.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

15.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

17.

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

18.

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

Henry James

19.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Proverb, German

21.

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

22.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

23.

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

Ward Cleaver

24.

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

Wooden, John

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

26.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

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

Elbert Hubbard

28.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

29.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

30.

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

Pearl Buck

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

33.

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

34.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

Link, Henry C.

36.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

37.

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

38.

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

Burnett, Leo

39.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

40.

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

Nadine Stair

41.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Boswell, Nelson

48.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

49.

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