Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nadine Stair

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Donald Foster

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

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

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Pomfret

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

Einstein, Albert

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Henry James

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pearl Buck

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Nadine Stair

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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