Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Pearl Buck

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

Morita, Akio

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

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Confucius

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Waitley, Denis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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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

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

Link, Henry C.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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

Henry C. Link

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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