Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Proverb, German

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

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

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Carnegie, Dale

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

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

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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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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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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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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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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Joel, Billy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Henry James

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Confucius

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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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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 avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Ford, Henry

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

Peter McWilliams

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Taylor, Jeremy