Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

- Jenkins, Josh

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Nadine Stair

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Garry Marshall

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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 said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

12.

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

13.

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

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Sophia Loren

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Niels Bohr

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Stair, Nadine