Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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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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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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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pearl Buck

22.

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

23.

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 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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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Joel, Billy

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Henry James

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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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Cicero, Marcus T.