Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

10.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Confucius

13.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

17.

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

18.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

30.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry James

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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 man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.