Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

11.

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 have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boswell, Nelson

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Sophia Loren

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Bradshaw, John

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rostand, Jean

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.