Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Wooden, John

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Sophia Loren

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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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

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boswell, Nelson

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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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

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.