Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Waitley, Denis

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Confucius

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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

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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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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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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Henry James

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

Joel, Billy

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

Henry C. Link

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

43.

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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

47.

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

Nadine Stair

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

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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