Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Niels Bohr

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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 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

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, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Joel, Billy

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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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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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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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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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ward Cleaver

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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

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

Donald Foster

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

Sophia Loren