Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Henry C. Link

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry James

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Henry

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Joel, Billy

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.