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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Confucius

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wooden, John

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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