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

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

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

Nadine Stair

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold 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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Peter McWilliams

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Proverb, German

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

34.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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, 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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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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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

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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.