Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

- Magazine, Bernard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

11.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Henry James

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Knight, Philip

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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

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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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

Burnett, Leo

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Confucius

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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