Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about 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.

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Niels Bohr

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

Knight, Philip

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Bradshaw, John

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Morita, Akio

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Burnett, Leo

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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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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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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pomfret

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey