Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Waitley, Denis

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry James

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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

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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

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

Wooden, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

29.

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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

39.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Pomfret

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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.