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

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

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

Niels Bohr

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

Wooden, John

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

Hein, Piet

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Henry C. Link

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

Pomfret

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

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

Sophia Loren