Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Ward Cleaver

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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

Proverb, German

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

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Joel, Billy

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Niels Bohr

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.