Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hein, Piet

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Nadine Stair