Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gingrich, Newt

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

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

Pearl Buck

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Knight, Philip

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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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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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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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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 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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.