Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rostand, Jean

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Knight, Philip

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pearl Buck

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Marden, Orison Swett

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Confucius

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

Henry James

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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

Link, Henry C.