Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Rumsfeld, Donald

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Cullen Hightower

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter McWilliams

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Joel, Billy

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

27.

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

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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.

Daly, Chuck

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pearl Buck

39.

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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.