Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pomfret

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Joel, Billy

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

10.

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

Knight, Philip

11.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

12.

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

Confucius

13.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

14.

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

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

19.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

20.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

21.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

22.

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

23.

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

Ward Cleaver

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

28.

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

Stair, Nadine

29.

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

30.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

32.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

33.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

34.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

36.

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

Cullen Hightower

37.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

38.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

39.

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

40.

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

Walter Bagehot

41.

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

Smith, Harold J.

42.

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

Donald Foster

43.

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

44.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

45.

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

Shapira, Gina

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis