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, 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

2.

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

Joel, Billy

3.

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

4.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

5.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

6.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

12.

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

Smith, Harold J.

13.

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

14.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

15.

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

16.

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

Confucius

17.

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

18.

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

19.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

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

Wooden, John

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Proverb, German

25.

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

26.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

27.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

28.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

29.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

30.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

31.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

34.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

35.

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

36.

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

Pearl Buck

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

39.

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

40.

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

Bradshaw, John

41.

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

Hein, Piet

42.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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.