Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Pearl Buck

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Confucius

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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

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

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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