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

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stair, Nadine

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Waitley, Denis

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Elbert Hubbard

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh