Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Pomfret

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Cullen Hightower

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Henry James

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

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

Donald Foster

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

14.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

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

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

Pearl Buck

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Smith, Harold J.

22.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Garry Marshall

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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.

31.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.