Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

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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 sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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 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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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