Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Fuller, Buckminster

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

11.

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

Peter McWilliams

12.

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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry James