Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Garry Marshall

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hein, Piet

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

19.

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

20.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

21.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

24.

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

Sophia Loren

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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

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

27.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

28.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

29.

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

Peter McWilliams

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

32.

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.

33.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

40.

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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Knight, Philip

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Waitley, Denis