Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

12.

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

Pomfret

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

15.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

18.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

19.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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

22.

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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

24.

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

25.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Peter McWilliams

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Ward Cleaver

37.

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

38.

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.

39.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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