Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Battista, Orlando A.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Wooden, John

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Walter Bagehot

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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're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

21.

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

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

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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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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

33.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Sophia Loren

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Henry James

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

Smith, Harold J.

49.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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