Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

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

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Confucius

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Joel, Billy

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