Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Henry James

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

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

Ward Cleaver

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Niels Bohr

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Einstein, Albert

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Confucius

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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