Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Sophia Loren

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Garry Marshall

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Proverb, German

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

Confucius

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Nadine Stair

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Henry James

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon