Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

No man fails who does his best...

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Pomfret

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

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

Henry James

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

Knight, Philip

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stair, Nadine

10.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Joel, Billy

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

28.

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

Peter McWilliams

29.

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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Ward Cleaver

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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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.