Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Joel, Billy

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

Henry James

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

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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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

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

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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 one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Sophia Loren

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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