Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Giovanni, Nikki

Best Quotes about Mistakes

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Bennett, James Gordon

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

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

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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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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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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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 must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, German

34.

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

35.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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

Bradshaw, John

37.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Joel, Billy

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

43.

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.