Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carnegie, Dale

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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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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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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pearl Buck

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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