Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

Churchill, Winston

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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 man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Donald Foster

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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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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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Ward Cleaver