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.

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

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Peter McWilliams

5.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

6.

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

7.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

8.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

9.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

10.

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

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

12.

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

Sophia Loren

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Joel, Billy

15.

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

Jenkins, Josh

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

18.

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

19.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

20.

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

Henry C. Link

21.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

22.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bradshaw, John

26.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

27.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

29.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

30.

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

31.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

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

Knight, Philip

33.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

34.

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

Smith, Harold J.

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Elbert Hubbard

41.

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

42.

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

Nadine Stair

43.

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

44.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

45.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

46.

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

47.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

48.

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

49.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

50.

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