Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Henry James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Ford, Henry

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Confucius

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Henry James

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

Knight, Philip