Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Morita, Akio

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

Sophia Loren

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.

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Henry James

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Donald Foster

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

Cullen Hightower

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Einstein, Albert

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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