Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Pomfret

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bradshaw, John

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Nadine Stair

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

Hein, Piet

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

Einstein, Albert

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Proverb, German

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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