Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Nadine Stair

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

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Confucius

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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

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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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Henry C. Link

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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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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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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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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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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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