Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gingrich, Newt

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Donald Foster

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Confucius

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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Peter McWilliams

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Joel, Billy

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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