Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Carnegie, Dale

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Henry C. Link

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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 value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Nadine Stair

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Einstein, Albert

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

39.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

41.

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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.