Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Donald Foster

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

10.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

11.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

13.

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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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

15.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

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

Walter Bagehot

17.

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

18.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

21.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Carnegie, Dale

25.

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

26.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

27.

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

28.

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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

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

Peter McWilliams

32.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nadine Stair

38.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Proverb, German

40.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

41.

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

Sophia Loren

42.

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

44.

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

Bradshaw, John

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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

46.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

47.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Henry C. Link