Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

Joel, Billy

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Niels Bohr

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Waitley, Denis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Henry James

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Confucius

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Stair, Nadine

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