Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Confucius

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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.

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Walter Bagehot

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.