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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Nadine Stair

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

Ford, Henry

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Knight, Philip

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

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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

32.

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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Confucius

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

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