Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

No man fails who does his best...

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Sophia Loren

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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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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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Henry James

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Henry C. Link

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.