Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

- Pomfret

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stair, Nadine

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Henry James

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Joel, Billy

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Einstein, Albert

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Proverb, German

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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

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

Garry Marshall