Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

- Bankhead, Tallulah

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

13.

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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Henry James

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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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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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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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 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

40.

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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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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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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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