Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, German

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Ward Cleaver

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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

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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

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

Donald Foster

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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