Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

No man fails who does his best...

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Jenkins, Josh

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Pearl Buck

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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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Waitley, Denis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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 clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Battista, Orlando A.