Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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Gates, Bill

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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 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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Bradshaw, John

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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 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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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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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Shapira, Gina