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

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

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.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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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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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Nadine Stair

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sophia Loren

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

Proverb, German