Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Jones, Franklin P.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Garry Marshall

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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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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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

Walter Bagehot

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Proverb, German

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

Confucius

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

Sophia Loren

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

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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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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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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Burnett, Leo