Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Donald Foster

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

13.

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

Henry C. Link

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Rostand, Jean

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Proverb, German

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Pearl Buck

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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

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Sophia Loren

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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

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

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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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

39.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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