Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Elbert Hubbard

If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Garry Marshall

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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 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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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