Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

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

Knight, Philip

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Joel, Billy

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Confucius

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Morita, Akio

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

Henry James

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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