Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

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

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Henry James

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

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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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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Ford, Henry

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

Nadine Stair

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Pearl Buck

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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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