Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Smith, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

2.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

3.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

5.

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

Ward Cleaver

6.

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.

7.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

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

Peter McWilliams

9.

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

Ford, Henry

10.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

11.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Peter McWilliams

15.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

16.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

17.

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

Pomfret

18.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

21.

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

Proverb, German

22.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

23.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

24.

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

Bradshaw, John

25.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

26.

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

27.

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

Henry C. Link

28.

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

Sophia Loren

29.

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

Knight, Philip

30.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

31.

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

Smith, Harold J.

32.

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

Rostand, Jean

33.

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

Niels Bohr

34.

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

35.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

37.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

38.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

40.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

41.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

42.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

43.

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

44.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

45.

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

46.

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

47.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

48.

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

49.

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

Shapira, Gina

50.

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